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Slavin, Ruth, 1909-1993
Ruth M. Slavin was born on September 8th, 1909 in Iowa. She married Dr. Hale Slavin and they moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1933. She is the mother of Thomas and Sarah Slavin and lived in Las Vegas until her death on May 4th, 1993.
Source:
“Ruth Martin Slavin (1909-1993)" July 10, 2008. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28178220/ruth-slavin.
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Spicer, Jim, 1929-1985
Jim Spicer was a rancher and miner in Nye County, Nevada. James Ray Spicer was born in 1929 in Kennie Mill, Florida. He was a co-owner of the Boiling Pot Outfit ranch near Beatty, Nevada. James Ray Spicer passed away on September 17, 1985 at the age of 56.
Source:
McCracken, Robert D. "Interview with James C. Weeks." Beatty Museum. Accessed June 18, 2020. https://www.beattymuseum.org/oral/weeksjames/weeks.pdf.
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Spicer, Effie
Effie Siedentopf Spicer was the co-owner of the Boiling Pot Outfit Ranch with her husband, Jim Spicer. In 1987, she recieved a length of service award from the Western Region of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) for her work recording weather patterns in Beatty, Nevada.
Sources:
McCracken, Robert D. "Interview with James C. Weeks." Beatty Museum. Accessed June 18, 2020. https://www.beattymuseum.org/oral/weeksjames/weeks.pdf.
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Bustamante Adams, Irene, 1968-
Irene Bustamante Adams believes in the reinvention of oneself as the path to the future. And since coming to Nevada in 1990 she has proven that anything is possible.
She was born and raised in rural California where she worked the fields alongside her family members growing up. Her mother is a native of New Mexico, with family that dates back six generations; her father was born in Mexico.
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Castroverde, Alex de, 1972-
Alex De Castroverde group up proud of his Cuban ancestry and embraced his parents’ stories of coming to be Americans.
Both parents, Vivian and Waldo De Castroverde, were teenagers as Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba. Waldo actively fought against the Castro regime as a CIA trained paratrooper; during which he was arrested and was imprisoned for two years. Vivian was one of thousands of young Cubans who quietly entered the United States through Operation Peter Pan in the early 1960s.
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