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Millson, Cathie, 1952-
Cathie Millson was born on August 24, 1952 in South Dakota. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1984 with her husband and her one-year-old daughter. After having her next two children, her family moved into the Rancho Bel Air neighborhood.
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Pinjuv, John, 1923-2015
John Pinjuv was born 1923 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He graduated from Las Vegas High School in 1941. Pinjuv served in the United States Army for 20 years until retiring. He owned Las Vegas Sheet Metal.
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Pinjuv, Fred, 1935-
Fred Pinjuv was born in 1935 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He graduated from Rancho High School in 1953 and attended college at the University of Oregon. Pinjuv was drafted by the Boston Red Sox right out of college, but decided to accept a draft to the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel.
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Genovese, Ann
Ann Genovese was born March 01, 1943 and was raised in Toronto Ontario, Canada. She met her husband, Robert, in Reno, Nevada and they married after knowing each other for only 31 days on September 09, 1967. The couple spent their first few years of marriage on the road with Robert’s band, with Las Vegas, Nevada as their home base. Later, they bought a home in McNeil Estates, and ceased their nomadic life when their eldest son, Joseph, started school. After their children grew up, the Genoveses started and ran a travel agency.
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Genovese, Robert
Robert Genovese was born and raised in Rochester, New York. He arrived to Las Vegas, Nevada for the first time in 1960 with two other musicians and were booked at the Fremont Hotel and Casino. They performed as a band opposite of Wayne and Jerry Newman for five years on a revolving stage at the Fremont. Over the years, Genovese’ music career flourished and he played showrooms in places like Caesar’s Palace Hotel and Casino, the Flamingo Hotel and Casino, and the Driftwood Lounge. He worked opposite of legends such as Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton.
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Scalley, Priscilla
Priscilla Scalley was born November 4, 1941 and was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She married her husband, Joseph, on December 26, 1964. The Scalleys arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1972 with their two young daughters. The couple took out two mortgages to buy their house in the Rancho Nevada Estates section of Ward 1. As a young mother, Scalley joined the West Charleston Elementary School Parent Teacher Association and eventually became president.
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Gans, Jim
E. James (Jim) Gans was raised in Seattle, Washington and Yakima, Washington before he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1950. Gans started in school at Bonanza Elementary, then to a new Hyde Park Junior High where he was part of the first class and on to Rancho High School where he graduated. His first jobs were mowing lawns, a paper route, and working at a dog boarding kennel for 25-cents an hour.
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Hensley, Ernest W., 1940-
Ernie Hensley III was born March 14, 1940 to parents Ernest W. Hensley Jr. and Gladys Barbara Hensley. He was raised in Washington, D.C. At the age of seven, he found a saxophone in his grandmother’s attic and embarked on his musical journey. He took lessons at the Modern School of Music in D.C., acquiring proficiency with the clarinet and the flute through long hours of practice. Hensley attended a historically black school, Armstrong High School, until he was transferred to McKinley High School in 1954, following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
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Jetter, Judy, 1939-
Judy Jetter was born November 18, 1939 and was raised in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of three, she began taking acting, tap, and ballet classes. While raised by her mother until age 15, she was forced to study opera, even though jazz music was her passion. Jetter’s first introduction to jazz came while listening to, legendary jazz great, Woody Herman on the radio. She developed an immediate appreciation and love for jazz music.
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Kerestesi, Thomas
Thomas Kerestesi was born on July 16, 1950 in Redding, California to Joy and Frank Kerestesi. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956. He went to West Charleston Elementary School, Hyde Park Junior High School, Bishop Gorman High School, and the University of Nevada, Reno. He worked at Cragin and Pike Insurance Agency for 38 years.
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