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Novotny, Vincent, 1917-2008

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McQuary, Gail S.

Gail Spaulding Jaros was born on October 16, 1937, in Cicero, Illinois. a suburb of Chicago. Her father Jerry Jaros was a professional saxaphone player and her mother, Fern Spaulding Jarosm was a professional trombone player. Gail began tap and ballet lessons when she was five years old. She signed as a dancer with Moro-Landis Productions in 1956, and she worked for that company at the Sahara Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, the Riverside Hotel and Casino in Reno, and the Beverly Hills Country Club in Covington, Kentucky.

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Molen, Joanne Pattiani

In July of 1955, Joanne Molen's husband was offered a job at Nellis Air Force Base, so they moved from Alturas, California, to Las Vegas. Joanne had worked for Citizens Utilities in Alturas as a Western Union teletype operator, so she got a job with the Southern Nevada Telephone Company. She was the only woman to hold some of the positions she held. She worked for the telephone company, which became Sprint, for more than forty years, ending up as a main engineer.

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Oliver, Emma W., 1931-2003

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Perkins, Edward C., 1917-2007

Edward C. Perkins was born on December 10, 1917 in Texas. He moved to Boulder City, Nevada in 1942 where he worked as a metallurgical engineer for the United States Bureau of Mines. Perkins passed away on July 30, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Rivera, Erma Linda, 1952-

Erma Linda Rivera was born in Morenci, Arizona, in 1952. In the Las Vegas Valley, where Linda has lived for over twenty years, she has promoted educational opportunities for youth, particularly in the Hispanic community. Both she and her husband moved from Montana, where her husband worked as a power plant operator on Yellowtail Dam, to southern Nevada to work on Hoover Dam in 1986. Linda was put in charge of the affirmative employment plan for her branch of the Bureau of Reclamation.

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Ronnow, F. Lorin, (Francis Lorin), 1909-1987

Francis Lorin Ronnow was born on June 23, 1909 in Panaca, Nevada. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1928 where worked worked as a hoisting engineer during the construction of the Hoover Dam. Ronnow passed away on July 24, 1987.

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Houben Rymer, Mary, 1910-2005

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Price, Margaret M., 1918-2006

Margaret M. "Maggie" Price, 88, of Boulder City, passed away Saturday, Sept. 16, 2006. She was born Sept. 27, 1918, in Freeport, Ill., and spent her childhood growing up in Columbus and Lebanon, Ohio. Maggie married Frank, a native of Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 3, 1938. They moved to Las Vegas in 1949. Maggie worked at the Sands Hotel as a showroom waitress during the "Rat Pack" era. She retired to take care of her daughter, Patti Kay. Years later, they moved to Boulder City.

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