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Marchese, Lamar, 1943-

Lamar Marchese was born December 11, 1943 in Tampa, Florida. Marchese and his wife, Patricia, graduated from the University of Southern Florida and relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1972.

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Lake-Eglington, Olive, 1895-1992

An early Las Vegas resident, Olive Lake-Eglington (neé Olive Lake) was born in 1895 in California. In 1904, she moved with her family from Ontario, California to Las Vegas, Nevada in a covered wagon. Eglington's father, Robert E. Lake, was a barber and was also involved in the early civic development of young Las Vegas, for which an elementary school was eventually named in his honor. Olive Lake graduated in the first Clark County High School class in 1913, and soon after married Earle Eglington, who had moved to Las Vegas in 1911.

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Corderman, Margie JoAnne, 1933-

Margie JoAnne Corderman was born on September 20, 1933 in Sac City, Iowa. She was a Deputy Assessor, engineering aid, planning technician, planning director, and engineering technician for Clark County, Nevada.

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Eisinger, Von

Von Eisinger was born in 1934. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada from Southern California in 1952 because of better work opportunities there. In Nevada, he worked as a truck driver, warehouseman, and a business agent for the Teamsters Union.

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Martinez, Ramon

Ramon Martinez was born in Park City, Utah on March 06, 1935. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1968. He worked at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as a professor of engineering.

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Bergin, Robert Francis, 1891-1985

Robert Francis Bergin was born June 12, 1891 to William Bergin and Susan Killian in Providence, Rhode Island. He worked in the gambling industry as a pit boss in the Desert Inn Hotel.

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Klinkner, Kathy

Kathleen Linkner was born on April 02, 1952 in Berkeley, California. She worked in the casino industry and was the first female credit manager in the entire Caesars organization. She married Donald Klinkner on April 15, 1983.

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Emery, Horace, 1911-

Horace Emery was born in 1911 in California. He moved to Nevada in 1922 to work on the Hoover Dam. Emery also worked as a river boatman on the Colorado River, the Davis Dam, and as a factory worker in Clark County, Nevada.

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Horner, Esther, 1909-1994

Esther Horner came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1931 from Texas at the height of the Great Depression. She was a housewife until her husband died in 1947, then worked in finance for 27 years before retiring.

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Lavigne, Randy, 1943-

Randy Lavigne was born September 27, 1943 in Emory Gap, Tennessee. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1994 and became the executive director of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Las Vegas Chapter in 1995.

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