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Preciado, Mirna
Mirna Preciado was born July 21, 1956 and raised in Tijuana, Mexico. When her family decided to immigrate in 1980, she decided to reach for her American dream. Preciado’s husband wanted her to be a stay-at-home mom, but the idea of working and buying her own bread intrigued her. She became a waitress at the new Margarita’s Restaurant in the Frontier Hotel. Though she liked her work, she was bothered by the other workers with requests to join the Culinary Union Local 226. Soon, those workers became her guardian angels.
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Starkweather, Wendy M., 1949-
Wendy Starkweather was born July 1, 1949 and was raised in rural Ogdensburg, New York. She attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York and became a teacher and librarian in New Hampshire. She married her husband, Peter, on August 26, 1972 in Schenectady, New York and the couple moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1978.
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Wright, Dorothy, 1948-2016
Dorothy Susan Steiwer was born in Seattle, Washington on February 5, 1948 to Mary B. and Robert Leland Steiwer. On July 16, 1969 she married Robert Ritenour and the couple made their home in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dorothy attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and earned her bachelor's and master's degrees. She divorced Robert Ritenour on July 17, 1978. She then married Richard Franklin Wright on February 4, 1984. After Frank Wright's death in 2003, she married Richard Avila.
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Wright, John S., 1910-1989
Dr. John S. Wright was born in Enid, Oklahoma to Ethel and Thomas Clayton Wright on May 1, 1910. He spent his youth in Newton, Illinois, and received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from the University of Illinois. He married Lucille Wilson in 1939. During World War II, he served in the United States Army He earned his doctorate from the University of Chicago. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956 to teach at Nevada Southern University, now known as the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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