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Spurlock, Robert Newton, 1924-

Robert Spurlock was born on July 31, 1924 in Tonto Basin, Arizona. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1953. He was a construction worker. He married Janice Spurlock on June 23, 1990.

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Spurlock, Janice B., 1931-

Janice Spurlock was born on November 21, 1931. She worked in the Clark County School District, but retired in June 2010. She married Robert Spurlock on June 23, 1990.

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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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Stefanelli, Deanna

Deanna Stefanelli was raised in Justice, Illinois with two younger brothers. She married to her husband, John, on October 18, 1970 in Lagrange, Illinois. As Stefanelli and her family moved around the country, she worked on her undergraduate degree, which she finished at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) while working in the administration department at the library. She retired from working in library administration in 2010.

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Stewart, Janzon

Janzon Stewart was born on October 24, 1935. Stewart's grandfather William T. Stewart brought his family to Alamo, Nevada in 1901. His grandfather was an important official with the Union Pacific Railroad and eventually ended up running an old ranch that the railroad owned. This ranch was run by Stewart's grandfather and father, and was a memorable place from his childhood. Stewart did not run the ranch with his father, but instead became a lawyer.

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Stewart, Keny

Keny Stewart was born July 18, 1955 in California. He moved from California to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1984 to work as an entertainer. A few years later, he accidentally drove through the John S. Park neighborhood and admired the architecture of the homes and the nostalgic feeling. Soon Stewart was a homeowner there, restoring his investment by becoming a neighborhood association president. Stewart is among the residents of his neighborhood who worked with Yorgo Kagafas to attain its historic designation.

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Textor, Ronald D.

Ronald D. Textor was born in Kirksville, Missouri, but moved shortly after his birth to Flint, Michigan. He started his own band, earned a degree in music education, and was in the North American Air Defense Command Band for three years. He then toured with the Glenn Miller Band under the direction of Buddy DeFranco. Textor earned a master's in music and briefly taught in several colleges in the late 1970s. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1981 and played with the Norm Geller orchestra at the Sands.

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Thomas, JoNell

JoNell Thomas was born February 11, 1966 and grew up in Murray, Utah in a large family. She attended college at Utah State and the law school at University of Utah. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1992 and held multiple careers from being a staff attorney with a Las Vegas firm to an attorney with the Clark County Special Public Defender’s office. Thomas, her husband, Billy Logan, and their twin daughters have lived in the John S. Park Neighborhood since 2001.

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Vilt, Kim

Kim Vilt was born July 14, 1975 and spent her childhood in Woodland Hills, California. She lived an outdoor life in rural San Fernando Valley and was the oldest of four children. Vilt graduated from CSUMB before serving with the Peace Corps in Bulgaria, where she met her husband (James J. Vilt). She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2000 into the John S. Park neighborhood. Her home in that neighborhood was built in 1946. Kim and James were married on September 8, 2002.

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Walsh, Marty, 1957-

Marty Walsh was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1957 and grew up as the middle child of two sisters. They moved to Louisville, Kentucky when Walsh was 13. After graduating from high school, she moved to Cincinnati to attend college at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Walsh visited almost every state in the United States before moving to Massachusetts, where she met and married her husband. In 1989, they sold their house and backpacked around Europe until they moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1998. The Walsh family bought a home in the John S.

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