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Ferron, Ruth Cooper, 1893-1990

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Ruth Cooper Ferron was the wife of William E. Ferron and a former president of the Mesquite Club in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born in 1893. In 1917, she married William Ferron in Salt Lake City, Utah and the two lived in a home on the corner of 4th and Fremont for many years, close to the family's drug store. She is also the mother of Barbara Ferron Doyle and Shirley Elizabeth Ferron Swanson. Ruth Cooper Ferron died in 1990.

Source:

William E. Ferron Family Papers, 1917-1976. MS-00061. Special Collections, UNLV Libraries, Las

Vegas, Nevada.