Pete Barbutti (also spelled Barbuti) was born in 1934 in Scranton. Pennsylvania. As a
child he was expected to learn an musical instrument. Pete's musical talents were honed
on the accordion and later the piano and trumpet. He had a gift for music and for comedy.
This combination would lead to a career in both and a list of professional and personal
friends that spanned an era from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Pete and his wife Mary Ann moved to Las Vegas in 1960. They raised their children here
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Daughter of Edwin & Edith Giles.
Married John Cadogan in November 1919, had daughter Jane.
Widowed in 1929.
Married Clyde Barcus.
Born 1894 with twin brother, Richard.
Richard died a few years after birth.
Married John Lucas Cadogan. Had daughter, Jane Alice Cadogan.
Widowed in 1929.
Married Clyde Barcus.
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Genealogist and former teacher Mary Flynn Barkan (1949- ) is an active member of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Southern Nevada (JGSSN) and a past president of the Friends of Southern Nevada Libraries. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband Barry Barkan in 1977. She taught at Cashman Junior High School before leaving the Clark County School District in 1981 to work at her husband’s company DeBarry Packaging. Mary Barkan became a member of the Friends of Southern Nevada Libraries in the early 1980s and joined the Board of Directors in 1983.
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