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McKee, Kathrine, 1949-
Kathrine McKee was born in 1949 in Detroit, Michigan to Lonnie and Dorothy McKee. Her father worked for General Motors and her mother was a homemaker. In 1965 McKee moved to Long Beach, California. On a visit to Las Vegas she auditioned for John Celli's show at the Mint Hotel. She got the job and moved to Las Vegas. She worked on various Las Vegas shows and even met the Rat Pack and established an intimate friendship with Sammy Davis Jr. In 1985 McKee moved back to Detroit and gave birth to a son. While in Detroit she became a casting director.
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Allen, Harvey, 1931-
Harvey Allen grew up poor in Philadelphia. After taking singing lessons at the Artie Singer Vocal School, he got jobs singing in night clubs up and down the east coast. He also took acting classes in New York and performed at the Copa Club. In the 1950s, he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada and auditioned for Jack Entratter at the Sands Hotel and Casino where he performed with numerous entertainers including Lena Home, Louis Armstrong, Tallulah Bankhead and Robert Merrill.
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Albertson, Tim, 1973-
Tim Albertson's family moved to the Las Vegas, Nevada area in 1978, and his mother located her accounting business in the John S. Park area. Tim Albertson moved into the John S. Park Neighborhood in 2005.
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Alger, Gloria
Gloria (Hicks) Alger was born in the early 1930s in Las Vegas, Nevada. She married Earl Alger after meeting in the Mormon church.
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Alger, Earl, 1933-
Earl Alger was born in the early 1930s in Las Vegas, Nevada. He married Gloria (Hicks) Alger after meeting in the Mormon church.
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Bartolo, Karen (Karen Sarret), 1943-
Karen Sarret Bartolo moved to Las Vegas, Nevada from Reno at five years of age in 1948 with her family. Her father opened Sarret's Office Supply. Karen was a member of the Las Vegas High School Rhythmettes, a dance team. She was baptized at 15 as a Mormon and graduated from Brigham Young University. Karen was an elementary school teacher in Sandy, Utah, and at several schools in Las Vegas.
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Bennett, Jean
Jean Bennett went to California from Missouri to pursue her dreams of being a singer. She worked for Buck Ram, who wrote, produced and/or arranged for the Platters, the Drifters, and many more singing groups of early rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues genres.
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Brewer, Andrew
Andrew "Andy" Brewer was born in and went to high school in La Grange, Georgia. Brewer joined the military and discusses his attempts to get a job after his release, and his experiences in New York City. He shares that after working in a factory, running a driving school, and working as a porter, he ended up as a bus driver for 21 years. After his wife passed away in 1999, Andy was searching for somewhere to retire. He tried the South because his daughters were there, and he lived for a short time in Durham, North Carolina.
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Brown, Jessica E., 1976-
Jessica E. Brown was born on July 08, 1976 in North Canton, Ohio. She moved to Las Vegas in 1987 just before her 10th birthday.
She married Gregory Brown in Ragusa, Sicily in 2006. As of 2009 Jessica Brown is the Web Portal Content Coordinator at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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