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Porter, Donna Michelle
Donna Michelle Porter was a photographer for the
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Porter, Donna M. LinkedIn. Accessed June 12, 2020. https://www.linkedin.com/in/donna-michelle-porter-75896723.
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Gunderson, Barry L., 1951-
Barry L. Gunderson was the principal at Las Vegas High School and Rancho High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born December 18, 1951 in California and moved to central Nevada in 1957 to farm with his parents. Gunderson attended the University of Arizona in Tuscon, Arizona, and later worked in various schools in the Clark County School District as a teacher, administrative assistant, dean, and assistant principal
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Garland, Cecil Conrad, Jr.
Cecil C. Garland was born on September 7, 1925 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Garland graduated from high school and was employed as a racncher. Cecil married Annette on February 15, 1974 and they had one child: Bertha Mae.
Garland was enlisted in the United States Air Force.
Garland has no affiliation with the Nevada Test Site.
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Rocha, Fernando, 1994-
Coming from Durango and Tijuana, Mexico, Fernando Rocha’s parents met in Los Angeles in the mid-90s. Working in the sheet metal industry, his father’s career would take them to Las Vegas during the boom of the early 2000s to the slot machine industry where they would establish their family in Sunrise Manor. Little did he know that his son would later become a corporate banker working alongside the same industry with Wells Fargo.
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Saiger, Mort (Morton Saiger), 1903-1997
Morton "Mort" Saiger was born July 22, 1903, in Opatov, Poland. He fled Poland in 1920 three days before he was to be inducted into the army. Settling in Denver, Colorado with his father, he showed an early interest in show business, winning awards as a ballroom dancer, appearing in several silent films, and performing as a baritone in a 1939 Los Angeles, California production of Mozart's opera, "Bastien and Bastienne."
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Ryan, Ora Prichard Smith, 1904-1992
Ora Belva Palmer was born on September 4, 1904 in Aurora, Missouri to Amanda Belle Vaughn and James Henry Palmer. She married Everett John Phelps on December 25, 1921. The couple had one daughter, Rosetta Belle Phelps. She later left Phelps and moved west to pursue a divorce. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1931. She worked as a waitress and married Louis A. Prichard on February 8, 1935 in St. George, Utah. In 1938, she began to work at the Shady Moor Lodge, a boarding house located at 325 South Second Street.
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