Deke Mimoto

For other uses of Deke, see Deke (disambiguation).

Mimoto, Deke

Appeared in Kindred in Death (c. June 2060, Sunday - Saturday)

Personal Information

• Address: White Plains, NY
• Relationships: Charity Mimoto (wife); Serenity Mimoto (daughter); Spiro Clayton (great-great-grandson)
• Occupation: Retired teacher/principal/politician/construction worker

History

• They’d lived in their home in White Plains for fifty-three years.
  • Deke was handy and had done a lot of fixing up of their house, over the years; he’d added rooms and remodeled areas of the house.
• He played baseball back in high school, through college and into Double A. Got picked up by the Yankees, played a season as catcher, and hit .352. He bunged up his knee and that was that.
• He went into teaching and coached high school ball; moved up to principal, then to county administrator, and some politicking. He worked construction most summers and, according to Feeney, he was a “Hell of a guy.”

Interesting Facts

• Serenity Mimoto’s parents decided to renew their vows on Valentine’s Day. Her mother, Charity, decided that, after seventy years, they’d earned a booster shot, a massive party, and a second honeymoon.
• Deke played golf on Wednesday afternoons and, once a month, he played poker with some of the boys on Thursday night.
• Deke, Serenity’s husband, brothers, the grandsons, were all going on a camping trip this upcoming weekend; they planned to be gone until Sunday.
• The Mimotos made a home-cooked meal for Baxter and Trueheart; real chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, and lemon meringue pie. Charity said they enjoyed having David and Troy stay with them.
• Charity said they had a judge for a daughter and plenty of lawyers and cops in the family, too.