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Countess, Jerome D.

Jerome Countess was born on December 22, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York. His mother raised him as a single mother, making ends meet with her job in a clothing factory. Countess's father rarely held a job, and his mother divorced him when Countess was three-years-old. Countess grew up in the borough's Jewish neighborhood, and he developed a reputation for being a skillful handball player and a great dancer.

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Beckley Family Papers

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MS-00232

Archival Collection

Ralph Denton Legal Papers

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MS-00440

Archival Collection

Broadbent, Robert Nevin, 1926-

Robert N. Broadbent was born in 1925 in Ely, Nevada. He was a pharmacist and eventually became a politican. Broadbent was married in 1953 in Boulder City, Nevada. He rose to in the Republican party, starting as a city council member in Boulder City and eventually becoming a mayor and county commissioner. Broadbent passed away on August 09, 2003.

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Snavely, Ann M.

Ann M. Snavely grew up in a very small town in Pennsylvania. She met her husband, S. Charles, at a small private hospital in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, where Ann was working as a nurse. She arrived in Nevada in 1965, courtesy of the United States Air Force, with her husband and two children. Ann and her husband raised their children in their Scotch 80s house.

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