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Deck, Hester, 1915-1988
Hester Van Ausdal Deck was the wife of James Deck, of Pioche, Nevada. Hester was born on April 29, 1915 in Santa Quin, Utah. She was a homemaker and resided in Pioche for fifty-three years until her death on May 27, 1988.
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”Hester Deck.” Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 29, 1988.
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Sears, Jr., Jerome Fargo, 1915-1993
Jerome Fargo Sears Jr. was born on June 7, 1915 in Salt Lake City, Utah to his father Jerome Sr. and his mother Louise Osbourne Sears. He was the grandson of Thomas J. Osbourne. Jerome Jr. served in the United States Army as a captain during the Korean War. He died on July 28, 1993 at age 78.
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Meade, Trevor. “Jerome Fargo Sears Jr. (1915-1993) - Find A Grave...,” December 2013. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122418946/jerome-fargo-sears.
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Osborne, Thomas J., 1860-1918
Thomas J. Osborne was born March 9, 1860, in Swinton, England, and immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1870. In 1871, the family settled in Pioche, Nevada. In 1881, he married Louise Theis. The couple had one son and three daughters. The youngest daughter married Jerome Fargo Sears in 1911.
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Bradford, Darrell A., 1930-1996
Darrell A. Bradford was born on March 19, 1930 in Spanish Fork, Utah to Moses Bradford and Anna Rigtrup. Bradford worked as an assistant manager at Alamo Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada before it was sold in 1948 by its owners, George and Peg Crockett, to Clark County and renamed McCarran International Airport. Bradford married Ruth Young in Elko, Nevada in May of 1954. Bradford died on December 22, 1996.
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Beckley, William Bruce, 1915-1986
William Bruce Beckley was born on April 22, 1915 to Leva A. Grimes and his father, William Beckley. He went on to be an attorney in Las Vegas, Nevada and married Carolina Donathan in 1962. The couple had one son, Doug Beckley. Bruce and his younger sister Virgina donated their family home to the Historic Las Vegas Homes exhibit at the Clark County Heritage Museum. He died in October of 1986.
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