COMMUNITY
Assessing Your Life INSURANCE BROKER PETE DOVER GIVES BACK TO THE EAGLE COMMUNITY Pete Dover has one major piece of advice for you: assess your life – in every way. Dover’s American Family Insurance agency in Eagle is celebrating its 20th birthday. It was important to Dover that readers know how grateful he is to his many clients and to his incredible staff – particularly Joy – for not only their amazing customer service, but most importantly, for holding down the fort while he works with many community organizations, including the Eagle Kiwanis Club, The Eagle Chamber of Commerce and the Eagle Library board. He was instrumental in getting Sunday hours at the Eagle library, so that people would have more access to all the resources it has to offer. “For working families, this was critical.” Dover prides himself in the way he is able to manage every aspect of his life in order to live to the fullest and give back to the Eagle community. Pete Dover’s parents were from the UK. His mother grew up in the country and his father
grew up in London and was evacuated during the WWII blitz. The Dover family eventually moved to Canada, where Dover’s father had taken a banking position. His mother moved to Tasmania (a six week journey by ship), back to the UK, and eventually landed in Canada, where she met Pete’s father at a YMCA dance and married him shortly thereafter. The couple moved from Canada to La Canada in California. Similar names, vastly different cultures. Dover’s mother was an RN. One of Dover’s favorite childhood memories is of his mother regaling him with stories of having cared for Elizabeth Taylor after the family had moved to Southern California. “She was married to Richard Burton at the time, and when her stint was done, the couple gave her a beautiful angora sweater. Years later, when my mother’s dementia was in an advanced state, she would still talk about the angora sweater that Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton gave her.” After 12 years, the family relocated to the Bay Area which Pete calls home.
BY CATRINE MCGREGOR
