Deaner, Charles W., 1922-2017

Charles Deaner was born in 1922 near Erie, Pennsylvania. Deaner served in the Air Force and battled in the North African campaign of World War II. After the war, he attended college and received a law degree from Syracuse University. Because of a sister and brother-in-law who had settled in Las Vegas, Nevada, he ventured to join them in Las Vegas during the 1950s. Deaner became a leader in the law profession during the 1960s and the 1970s.