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Transcript of interview with Gene Segerblom by Layne Karafantis, February 7, 2009

Date

2009-02-07

Description

Interviewed by Layne Karafantis; Genevieve "Gene" Segerblom contributed in a multitude of ways to her home of more than fifty years--Boulder City, Nevada. She is a third-generation Nevadan and was born in Ruby Valley, Nevada, in 1918. Gene and her future husband Clifford moved from Reno where they both had attended the University of Nevada, Reno to Boulder City in 1940. After they came back from Panama in 1948 where Clifford had a photographing assignment, she ran a day care center and did freelance writing of articles about the Nevada landscape with her husband providing the photographs. Gene taught high school in Boulder City. She was elected city councilwoman in Boulder City in 1979. Gene served four terms in the State Assembly from 1993 to 2000. Her grandfather was a state senator and her mother was an assemblywoman. Today her son Richard "Tick" Segerblom serves in the State Assembly, so they are the only family to have had four generations serve in the Nevada legislature. She was involved in the creation and restoration of the Boulder City Hotel and Museum and was involved in the American Association of University Women, the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce, and the Community Club. Gene did charity work for other groups. too. The theater in the Boulder Dam Museum was named the Segerblom Theatre in her honor. She passed away on January 4, 2013, at the age of 94.

Text

Gems and Minerals Magazine, October 1967: photograph

Date

1967-10

Description

Jewel encrusted Roulette wheel that appeared on the cover of the October 1967 issue of Gems & Minerals Magazine. Creator is Jim England.

Image

Jewel encrusted roulette wheel that appeared on the cover of Gems & Minerals Magazine, 1967 October

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File

Archival Collection

<em>Gems and Minerals Magazine</em> Cover Image for October 1967
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Collection Number: PH-00208
Collection Name: Gems and Minerals Magazine Cover Image for October 1967
Box/Folder: Folder 01

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