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Hall, Lorayne (1925-2017)
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Mrs. Curtis Hall
Lorrayne Wilson Hall
Lorrayne Wilson Hall was an educator who served as a teacher in the Clark County School District for over 40 years, contributing to public education in Southern Nevada across multiple decades.
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Mlynarczyk, Flo
Flo Mlynarczyk was born in Fort Morgan, Colorado. Her parents divorced and she moved with her mother first to Loveland, Colorado and eventually to Los Angeles, California. Upon graduation from high school in 1943, Mlynarczyk moved to Kodiak, Alaska, to live with friends.
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Grenfell, Celia, 1926-
Celia Rivero was born on October 31st 1926 in Las Vegas, Nevada to her parents, Margarita R. and Francisco G. Rivero. Her father moved from Tepic, Mexico to Las Vegas in 1917 and met her mother who came from Guadalupe de Los Reyes, Mexico. Celia lived in Downtown Las Vegas with her family for about sixteen years, before they moved to Vegas Heights which was a developing community in Las Vegas.
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Gresh, Bertha M., 1883-1975
Bertha Gresh resided in Nelson, Nevada for over 60 years, and was its longest living resident at the time she passed away at age 92 in 1975.
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Jones, Judith Lee Johnson, 1940
Judith Lee Johnson Jones was born September 13, 1940 and spent her childhood in Oklahoma and Texas. In 1958, she was one of the winners of the Houston’s Chronicle contest that added the Texas Copa Girls to perform at the Sands Hotel and Casino. For Jones, the experience was a period of fun-filled freedom, followed by relentless encouragement from others to attend college, which she reluctantly did. To her surprise, she embraced college life, took her studies seriously, and received an education degree. She also became Miss Houston.
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Barnes, TD
Thornton Duard "TD" Barnes was born in Texas on January 25, 1937, grew up on a ranch at Dalhart, Texas, and graduated from Mountain View High School, Oklahoma. He then embarked on a ten-year military career. He served as an army intelligence officer in Korea. Following two years of radar and missile electronics schooling, he taught foreign students the Nike radar and missile system, and deployed with a Hawk missile battalion during the Soviet Iron Curtain threat. He attended Artillery OCS, where an injury ended his military career.
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Ashbaugh, Don, 1898-1961
"Don Ashbaugh served in both World War I and World War II as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes and as editor of an airbase newspaper. And in between he graduated from the University of Southern California in 1927 and worked on newspapers from Manila to Paris, including nine years in Los Angeles, first with the Los Angeles County News and then with the Los Angeles Times.
In 1934 he joined the publicity department of Paramount Pictures. When World War II broke out in 1941, he joined the army.
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Roles, Treva
Treva Roles was born March 10, 1928 to Louis and Katherine Smith, and spent her childhood in Erie, Pennsylvania and Chicago, Illinois with five other siblings. During the Great Depression, Roles’s father used his entrepreneurial skills to turn his traveling salesman profession into a family business, selling personal inventions. Eventually, he decided to sell the business, and buy a motel out west to retire. The motel ended up being the Fair Price Motel in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Roles soon moved out to help the family run it.
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