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Clarke, Angela, 1932-

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Dr. Angela Clarke was born into a very large family in 1932 in Baltimore, Maryland. She joined the women's Air Force and sfter completing her service tour, she went to college on the G.I. Bill.

Among her many awards, she was given a plaque for integrating Air Force swimming pools. After the Air Force, she attended Morgan State College and the University of Maryland.

Angela was married in Baltimore and eventually had three children. She followed her parents to California and wound up living and practicing medicine in Beverly Hills. A friend suggested that she was needed in Las Vegas, Nevada as a board-certified family practitioner, and she and her children made the move to Las Vegas in 1976.

She retired in 1987.