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Anderson, Helen, 1949-
Helen Anderson was born November 23, 1949 to Ulah and Sampsen Walker in Ferndale, Arkansas. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1962, where she spent most of her childhood. She married "Big" Willie Anderson and together they owned Hamburger Heaven, a local restaurant. Anderson had two children with her husband, Karen and Fredrick.
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Kirkland, Barbara Bates (1934)
Barbara Bates Kirkland was born 1934 in Shreveport, Louisiana. On a sunny day in 1946, Kirkland and her mother stepped off the train from Shreveport and onto the Western street of Fremont in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Kirkland’s mother, Atha Toliver, found employment as a maid. Toliver, who was determined that her daughter would get an education and a finer future, saw this as her opportunity to achieve this for her daughter. Later, she opened Eva’s Flower Basket, a floral shop that Kirkland would operate after retiring from teaching.
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