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Wiener, Kittie, 1891-1977
Kitty Wiener was a Las Vegas, Nevada businesswoman and prominent community member. She moved to Las Vegas in 1931 with her husband, Louis Wiener, Sr. Kitty Wiener helped manage her husband's tailor shop on Fremont Street and also worked as a seamstress. Her son was prominent attorney Louis Wiener, Jr.
Wiener, Louis. Interview, 1990 February 23. Transcript. OH-01974. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Thomas, Sonny
Sandy C. Thomas is better known as Sonny. Sonny Thomas was born in Fordyce, Arkansas on Feburary 6, 1940. In 1959, Sonny arrived in Las Vegas looking for the promised employment opportunities. His first job was as a bus boy at El Rancho. Over the course of the next thirty years, he moved from one job to another, each time gaining more responsibility. His last hotel role was as shipping and receiving manager at the MGM. While working at the MGM, Sonny finally secured a part-time second job with Davis Funeral Home.
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Hyman, Stanley
Stanley Hyman (1925-1999) was a district manager at Farmers Insurance and a Navy veteran who lived in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1951 until his death in 1999. Hyman was born August 26, 1925, in San Francisco, California. During World War II he served in the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific from 1944 to 1946. Hyman moved to Las Vegas in May 1951 and was active in the local community. He was a member of the Lions Club and the Chamber of Commerce, and chaired several United Fund drives.
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Hausch, Mary, 1949-
Mary Hausch was born September of 1949 in Akron, Ohio. Hausch arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada during a spring vacation with four friends. The spontaneity of the trip and her enjoyment of the weather resulted in her applying for, and getting, a reporter position at the Las Vegas Review- Journal (R-J). For the next nineteen years, she worked her way up the newspaper ladder, covered local education issues that included desegregation, a groundbreaking series of Prisoners of War- Missing in Action war stories, and the Nevada legislature.
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Martinez, Nathalie, 1998-
Nathalie Martinez is one of the original members of the Latinx Voices project team in 2018 and remained a leader on the project which culminated in 2021. 2021 is also the year that she graduated from UNLV.
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Clark, Phyllis Webb, 1928-
Phyllis Webb Clark was born in Los Angeles, California on October 11, 1928. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1942. She was a homemaker.
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Evans, Jacqueline Dwyer, 1940-
Jacqueline Evans, née Dwyer, was born on December 8, 1940 in Long Beach, California. She moved Las Vegas, Nevada in 1955. She was a student and a housewife.
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Fleming, Stella E., 1897-
Stella Fleming was born on December 01, 1897 in Victoria, Canada. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1929. She was a secretary and administrator for the public welfare office.
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Connor, Gerald Louis, 1930-2002
Gerald Connor was born June 16, 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada while serving in the United States Air Force.
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Farei, Mae, 1909-
Mae Farei was born on April 12, 1909 in Dubquain, Illinois. She was a hotel housekeeper at the Twin Lakes Lodge and at the Stardust Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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