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Schwartz, Milton I., 1921-2007
Milton I. Schwartz was born in 1921 and was raised in Brooklyn, New York. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1946 to help build the Flamingo Hotel and Casino. After moving back to New York for a while, Schwartz returned to Las Vegas in 1971 to found Valley Hospital and serve as its board chairman. He was involved in many businesses in Las Vegas and worked in real estate development. He also owned and operated a cable television company called MISCO, Inc. and was a partner and director of Yellow, Checker, and Star cab companies.
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Bergman, Joel David, 1936-2016
Joel Bergman was born in 1936 and spent his childhood in Venice, California. He graduated with an honors degree in architecture from the University of Southern California in 1965, then he went to work for Martin Stern in 1968. BBy 1978 Bergman was working
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Crooks, Jean (Jeannette Mactaggart), 1924-2009
Jeanette "Jean" M. Crooks (née Mactaggart) was born May 20, 1924, in Richmond, California. Jean married Lawrence on August 8, 1947, and had two children: James Lawrence and Kathryn Jean. Lawrence Crooks works for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).
Crooks obtained a bachelor of arts the the University of California located in Berkeley, California; she also took one year of teacher training at California State at Hayward.
Crooks is a teacher and substitute teacher in Oakland, California and Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Crowe, Cecile Dotson, 1911-2003
Cecile Dotson Crowe was born October 17, 1911 in Millville, Utah. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1923 with her family. At the time, the town was a very small and friendly railroad town where everyone knew everyone else. After high school, Crowe went to the University of Nevada, married her husband Charles Gerald, and raised her children and grandchildren. She also worked for the Chamber of Commerce and on the Boulder Canyon project.
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Cruze, Charlene Cox, 1941-2014
Charlene Cox Cruze was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her early ancestors traveled through the area in the 1850s, and her grandparents settled in Las Vegas in 1905, the year it was founded. She is a registered Cherokee, Daughter of the American Revolution, and Daughter of the Utah Pioneers. As of 2010 she worked as a Las Vegas tour guide.
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