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Frehner, Merle, 1905-1994
Merle Frehner was born on July 20, 1905 in Littlefield, Arizona, the son of two Mormon settlers. In 1910, the Frehners moved to St. Thomas, Nevada. Along with his family, Merle Frehner drove freight teams and transported ore and other mining supplies. Frehner later moved to Las Vegas, Nevada and started a Ford car dealership. Frehner married Beulah LaVon Conger in 1930 in Utah. Merle Frehner died on January 10, 1994, in Las Vegas.
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Marsh, Jim
Jim Marsh was born December 25, 1933 in Denver, Colorado. His father was the chief for the Colorado Patrol and his mother lived in Nebraska, so he split his time in both places while growing up. He was a service member of the United States Army upon his discharge from the service, he started working with his father at a Ford dealership.
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Romans, Sophie Bogdanovich, 1934-
Sophie Bogdanovich Romans was born in Washington, Utah in 1934 to Rosa Zahner and George Bogdanovich. She moved to Blue Diamond, Nevada as an infant, where she lived for many years. She has three siblings--George D. Bogdanovich, Angie Bogdanovich DeLong, and Nina Bogdanovich Wolters. She married Herbert Romans in 1951 at the Little Church of the West (Las Vegas, Nevada). She has five childresn, Richard, Sandra, Christina, Robert, and Linc.
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Wright, Clinton, 1940-
Clinton Wright was borni in Altheimer, Arkansas in 1940. In 1959, after attending the University of Arkansas, Clinton Wright came to Las Vegas. He did various jobs at first and then settled in as a financial planner for A. L. Williams and eventually as a photographer for the Las Vegas Voice, an African American publication. He took photos there for fifteen years, photographing local events and news.
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