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Luce, Darrell Dunkel
Darrell Luce was born on March 24, 1929 in Fort Worth, Texas. He worked at his father's appliance store, Luce and Goodfellow Appliance Store, and at Sears. He and his wife Jayne married in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1952.
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Carrigan, Chet, 1912-
Chet Carrigan was born in 1912 in Texas. When he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada he worked in construction and was in the Sheriff's Posse.
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Crocker, Clark Hamilton, 1920-
Clark Crocker was born in 1920 in Westfield, Massachusetts and had various careers such as a pilot in the United States Navy and a teacher in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Kanie, Ann Clark
Ann Clark Kanie was born February 28, 1959 and was raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. She attended Lincoln Elementary when her mother taught there, Jim Bridger Junior High, Rancho High School, and then graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in elementary education. She began teaching, like her mother, at Lincoln Elementary in North Las Vegas but later changed to Wasden Elementary. Kanie married her husband, Kyle, on August 31, 1985.
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Shepherd, Henry S.
Henry Shepherd was born and raised on a plantation in Tallulah, Louisiana, where the primary crops were peanuts and corn. When he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1967, he worked as a bartender at the Sands Hotel. Shepherd was able to send his daughter to college because he was working for the Culinary Workers Union Local 226. Leaving the Sands Hotel, he went to the Landmark Hotel and Casino, and then went to Circus Circus Hotel. The Luxor Hotel and Casino was his final stop in a bartending career that spanned over three decades.
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