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Ober, Dee, 1932-2008
Bio taken from obituary on Las Vegas Review Journal: "D'VORRE OBER D'Vorre (Dee) Ober, 76, of Las Vegas, passed away Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Dee was preceded in death by Harold Ober, her beloved husband of 55 years; and her younger sister, Myrna Supowitz-Walzer. She is survived by her five children, Ron (Gail), Ed (Gail), Jami (Scott), Scott (Barb), and David (Jennifer); 14 grandchildren; a great-grandson; and younger siblings, Lennie (Lennie), and Lynda (David). D'Vorre was born Feb. 17, 1932, in Pittsburgh. Dee had a very wonderful and fulfilling life.
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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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Occhiogrosso, Julia
Julia Occhiogrosso was born on March 30, 1961, in Brooklyn, New York. Julia married Gary Cavalier on June 25, 1944, and they had two children: Nicholas Kyler Cavalier and Jonathan Cody Cavalier.
Julia attended two years of college at Cortland State.
Julia is a Catholic Work in the Las Vegas Social Ministry and is affiliated with the Nevada Test Site as a nonviolent activist.
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Oddie, Daisy Rendall, 1884-1955
wife of Nevada governor & U.S. senator Tasker Oddie, they were married November 30, 1916 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasker_Oddie); photo of their shared headstone at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13238376 shows her as Daisy Rendall Oddie. Rendall had been married to and divorced from Alex MacKeigan prior to meeting Oddie, and she is sometimes referred to as Daisy Rendall MacKeigan (page 75, Nevada studies in history and political science ; no. 11, Questions from the past / by Wilbur S. Shepperson, Neal A. Ferguson, Francis X. Hartigan.
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