From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). Fedora Bomtempi on the (left) with Eleanor Grasso who was the Clark County Humanitarian Mother of the year in 1973.

From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). Fedora Bontempi with Pat Van Betten who was the Community Service Mother of the year in 1973.

From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). Show Business Mother of the year Grace Hayes (second from the right) with her son Peter Lind Hayes (left), Fedora Bontempi (center right), and her daughter-in-law Mary Healy (right) in 1973.

From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). William Boswell, Southern Nevada Chapter President of the Muscular Dystrophy Association presents bouquet of roses to Mr. Philip (Sue) Stockton, 1975 Clark County Mother of the Year. Standing in row between wheel chairs are Philip Stockton (second from left), Fedora B. Simpkin, and Harriet Trudell, Special Assistant to the Governor, who presented a plaque.

From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). From left to right is Stephen Adams, Fedora Bontempi Simpkin, Joan Adams who was the Clark County Mother of the year, and Charles Adams an English Professor at UNLV, in 1976.

From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). At the very left is Fedora Bontempi Simpkin, and Joan Adams (in the wheelchair), who was 1976 Clark County Mother of the year, as well as other mothers that were runner ups in various categories.

From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). Georgia Mae Thompson stands with her eleven children holding the award for Clark County Mother of the Year in 1978.