From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). From left to right is Deon (niece of Marie Ripps), David London, Alfred Ripps, (Marie's husband), Marie Ripps (Clark County Mother of the Year), Daniel (nephew of Marie Ripps), and Fedora Bontempi at the Flamingo Hotel, 1971.

From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). From left to right is John Cronan, David London, unidentified, Marie Ripps (Clark County Mother of the Year), unidentified, Oran Gragson, and Fedora Bontempi at the Flamingo Hotel, in 1971.

From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). From left to right is David London, Marie Ripps (Clark County Mother of the Year), and Fedora Bontempi at the Flamingo Hotel, 1971.

From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). From left to right is David London, Marie Ripps (Clark County Mother of the Year), and Fedora Bontempi at the Flamingo Hotel, 1971.

From the Fedora Bontempi Simpkin Photograph Collection (PH-00239). From left to right is David London, an unidentified lady, and Fedora Bontempi Flamingo Hotel in 1971.

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). On the left is Fedora Bontempi with Nora Pearson, Las Vegas Grandmother of the year in 1970.