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Baca, Edward J., 1931-2016
Edward Baca, a Las Vegas minister and retired air conditioning insulation installer, was born on September 14, 1931. Baca grew up the son of a coal miner in Wyoming and spent his teenage years in Price, Utah. He worked a series of jobs in the coal mines of Utah and railroad jobs for the Southern Pacific Railroad before joining the military and being stationed in Greenland.
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Baca, Edward J., 1931-2016
Edward Baca, a Las Vegas minister and retired air conditioning insulation installer, was born on September 14, 1931. Baca grew up the son of a coal miner in Wyoming and spent his teenage years in Price, Utah. He worked a series of jobs in the coal mines of Utah and railroad jobs for the Southern Pacific Railroad before joining the military and being stationed in Greenland.
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Macias, Pablo, 1965-
Pablo Macias was born in Carlin, Nevada, a small town 20 miles west of Elko, where the local population of Latinos was small. He has lived in Las Vegas since 1990.
He is the youngest of nine children born to Sofia and Tomas Macias, who met and married while living in Utah. Tomas was born in the United States and worked as a railroad laborer. Sofia was Mexican born and found work as a maid to help provide for their family.
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