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Fry, Joseph A., 1947-
Dr. Joseph Fry was born West Virginia on May 21, 1947. He was the only child of an insurance salesman and a public school teacher. His parents met in Ronceverte, West Virginia, and lived for a while in his grandmother's boarding house. He had an idyllic childhood in this small town of 2500 people. After graduation, he was interested in playing college basketball and ended up at Davis and Elkins College in east central West Virginia.
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George, Lloyd D., 1930-
Judge Lloyd D. George was born on February 22, 1930, in Montpelier, Idaho. He attended grade school and high school in Las Vegas, Nevada, and earned his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University in 1955. Later that same year, he entered the United States Air Force and worked as a fighter pilot in the Strategic Air Command. In 1958, he concluded his military service as a captain and in 1961, earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Columbia Records, Inc.
Bio from Wiki Page: "Columbia Records is an American major record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment through Sony Entertainment, both are subsidiaries of Sony Corporation of America, the United States division of Sony Corporation. It was founded in 1887 from an earlier enterprise named the American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Graphophone Company. From 1961 to 1990, Columbia's recordings were released outside the U.S.
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Ober, Harold "Hal", 1926-2007
Harold "Hal" Ober (1926-2007) was a Las Vegas, Nevada homebuilder responsible for nearly 30 local residential developments, including the Desert Shores master-planned community in northwest Las Vegas. Born May 6, 1926 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Ober moved to Las Vegas with his wife D’Vorre in 1977. He started off as a division president for U.S. Home Corp and then became president of R.A. Homes in 1980. He founded his own development company, Ober Homes, in the early 1990s.
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Urban, Ruth Pearson, 1948-
Ruth Pearson Urban was born in 1948 in Los Angeles, California. At the age of ten, she moved to Las Vegas with her mother and older sister. Urban spent most of her childhood in the Huntridge area and was always heavily involved with Temple Beth Sholom. After graduating from Las Vegas High School, Urban attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where she received a bachelor’s degree in social work, and later, a master’s degree in counseling.
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Wasserman, David
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Wengert, Lottie, 1891-1968
Lottie Ward married Cyril S. Wengert in 1921; they had five children:
James “Jimmie” Wengert (July 7, 1923-March 27, 1930) ("who died ... at age seven from complications following surgery" (http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/cyril-s-wengert)
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