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Rice, Edna
Edna “Ande” Rice was born October 01, 1943 in Oak Park, Illinois. She was raised Protestant to a mother who was a teacher and a father who was a mechanical engineer. Rice graduated from Illinois State University with her bachelor’s degree and attended Roosevelt University to obtain her master’s degree in education administration. Rice met her partner, Sharon Maurer-Schwartz, in the 1980s, but was not able to legally marry her until 2008 in California. They moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1999 and raised Maurer-Schwartz’s daughter Julie together.
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Kurlinski, Claire, 1949-
Claire Kurlinski was born March 11, 1949. She is the daughter of Phyllis Walter Sawyer, who served in the United States Navy during World War II and worked as a teacher in Kingsville, Maryland, and Edward R. Sawyer. Clair Kurlinski married John Kurlinski.
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Genealogy files about "Claire Kurlinski." Accessed on June 11, 2020 on familysearch.org
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Wilkes, Roscoe
Roscoe Wilkes was born in Bonanza, Colorado on Janruary 25, 1918. He moved with his family to Pioche, Nevada in 1927. He was a lead zinc miner, a grade school teacher, and a PBX operator before he enlisted in the military during World War II. Wilkes was a prisoner of war in Romania. He got a law degree and went back to Pioche where he was a district attorney and later a judge.
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