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BIOGRAPHIES BY COUNTY
Carson City
Elizabeth Cilicia Babcock
Edith Naomi Bernard
Grace Bordewich
Carolyn Nancy Bordewich Bowers
Mildred Bray
Alida Cynthia Bowler
Thelma Davis Calhoun
Hannah Clapp
Felice Cohn
Dat-So-La-Lee
Nellie Mighels Davis
Marcia de Braga
Jean Ford
Dr. Mary Fulstone
Gertrude Riordan Gottschalk
Agnes Hume Scott Train Janssen
Caroline Frances Best Kelley
Anita Carol Bernardini Laxalt
Therése Laxalt
Alice Allegra List
Anne Hudnall Martin
Maya Paine Miller
Lucille Elizabeth Emmert Petty
Ida Louise Pittman
Jennie O’Hare Riordan
Mary Rose
Marjorie Ann Russell
Louisa Marie Chubbuck Sweetland
Emma Vanderleith
Ada Van Sant Stoddard Wallace
Lois Elizabeth Hatch Deimel Washburn
Dixie Olean Karr Westergard
Alanah Jean Woody
Fuji Adamson Stephens Woon
Roslyn Merle Schwartz Works
Churchill County
Minnie Blair (Fallon)
Marcia de Braga (Fallon)
Luella Kirkbride Drumm (Fallon)
Wuzzie George (Stillwater)
Caroline Frances Best Kelley (Fallon)
Laura Mills (Fallon)
Lillie Simson Van Voorhis Pinger
Byrd Fanita Wall Sawyer (Fallon)
Lois Elizabeth Hatch Deimel Washburn (Fallon)
Margaret “Peg” Wheat (Fallon)
Mary Daisy Allen Williams White (Fallon, Fairview)
Clark County
Dessie Lola Bailey (Las Vegas)
Emma Lou Montgomery Brandt (Las Vegas)
Mildred Breedlove (Las Vegas)
Beda Cornwall (Las Vegas)
Hilda M. Covey (Las Vegas)
Martha James Cragun CoxGeneva Douglas (Las Vegas)
Charlotte Rowberry Ellsworth (Las Vegas, Henderson)
Lilly Fong (Las Vegas)
Jean Ford (Las Vegas)
Maude Frazier (Las Vegas)
Lubertha Johnson (Las Vegas)
Bonnie Gay Leake (Las Vegas)
Ida Mountford (Boulder City)
Colanthe “Florence” Jones Murphy (Las Vegas)
Carrie Elizabeth Miller Townsley Porter (Las Vegas)
Bertha Ronzone (Las Vegas)
Bette Norene Hoge Sawyer (Las Vegas)
Delphine Squires (Las Vegas)
Helen J. Stewart (Las Vegas)
Betty Whitehead Willis
Douglas County
Mary Lydia Adams-Williams (Genoa)
Dr. Eliza Cook (Mottsville)
Anna Dressler (Minden)
Sonia Barndt Cochran DeHart (Genoa)
Margaret “Maggie” Gee
Theresa Smokey Jackson (Dresslerville)
Agnes Hume Scott Train Janssen (Genoa)
Wilhelmine Heidtman Springmeyer (Carson Valley)
Sallie Maria Ruperti Springmeyer (Minden/Gardnerville)
Elko County
Bertha Knemeyer (Elko)
Lillian Malcolm (Jarbidge)
Jean McElrath (Wells)
Hazel Bell Wines (Elko)
Esmeralda County
Minnie Blair (Goldfield)
Isabella McCormick Butler (Tonopah)
Felice Cohn (Goldfield)
Lillian Malcolm (Silver Peak)
Ellen Clifford Nay (Goldfield)
Josie Pearl (Goldfield)
Ferminia Sarras (Silver Peak)
Elizabeth “Bessie” Beatty Sauter (Goldfield)
Bird Wilson (Goldfield)
Eureka County
Lois Thompson Allen (Beowawe)
Carrie Dann (Beowawe)
Mary Aileen Norton Evans (Dunphy)
Mary Hall (Grass Valley)
Maggie Johnson (Mill Canyon)
Teresa D’Alosio Knight (Eureka)
Jessie Mahoney (Dunphy, Beowawe)
Jeanette “Nettie” Bremenkampf Rogers
Josie Alma Woods (Eureka)
Humboldt
Carrie Choate Bullis (Paradise Valley)
Carol Bullis-Echeverria (Winnemucca)
Edna Eddy (Winnemucca)
Mary Aileen Norton Evans (Winnemucca)
Mary Grantz (Winnemucca)
Josie Pearl (Cove Canyon)
Mary Rose (Winnemucca)
Idah M. Strobridge (Lassen Meadow)
Hazel Bell Wines (Winnemucca)
Sarah Winnemucca (McDermitt)
Lander County
Kittie Wells Bonner (Smith Creek & Austin)
Clara Dunham Crowell (Austin)
Mary Hall (Denay Valley)
Molly Flagg Knudtsen (Grass Valley)
Emma Wixom Nevada (Austin)
Jesusa Guridi Saval (Battle Mountain)
Frances Williamson (Austin)
Lincoln County
Hazel Denton (Caliente)
Delora Elmira Craw Hulse (Pioche)
Teresa D’Alosio Knight (Delamar)
Gue Gim Wah (Castleton/Pioche)
Lyon County
Frances Friedhoff (Yerington)
Dr. Mary Fulstone (Smith Valley)
Viola Annie West Goldsworthy (Yerington)
Fannie Hazlett (Dayton)
Katharine Norrid Mergen (Wabuska)
Anna Warren (Yerington)
Edith West (Yerington)
Carrie Ellen Willis Wilson (Yerington)
Mineral County
Martha Barlow (Hawthorne)
Anna Rechel (Rawhide)
Ferminia Sarras (Candelaria, Luning)
Julia Viani (Hawthorne)
Lois Elizabeth Hatch Deimel Washburn (Hawthorne)
Nye County
Minnie Blair (Tonopah)
Marjorie Ann Moore Brown (Tonopah)
Jennie Adele Curieux (Tonopah)
Lillian Malcolm (Rhyolite, Tonopah)
Ellen Clifford Nay (Tybo, Stone Cabin Valley, Belmont, Tonopah)
Mary O’Neill O’Connell (Tonopah, Carson City, Eureka, Ely)
Mimosa June Gates Pittman (Tonopah)
Bertha Ronzone (Manhattan, Tonopah)
Helen Rulison Shipley (Tonopah)
Kathryn L. Marbaker Tubb (Ash Meadows)
Lois Elizabeth Hatch Deimel Washburn (Pahrump)
Bird Wilson (Manhattan)
Pershing County
Myrtle Beatice Talcott Anker (Lovelock)
Caroline Elizabeth Aufdermaur (Lovelock)
Edna Eddy (Winnemucca)
Martha Gottschalk (Lovelock)
Marian Alice McClellan (Lovelock)
Virginia Moreira Moura (Lovelock)
Leona Addie Daoust Munk (Lovelock)
Ruth C. Ruddell (Lovelock)
Louise Aloys Smith (Lovelock)
Mildred Sebbas Smith (Lovelock)
Idah Meacham Strobridge (Lovelock)
Ruth Davis Sullivan (Lovelock)
Sarah Winnemucca (Lovelock)
Florence Anker Young (Lovelock)
Storey County
Lucy Anna Winston Bouldin (Virginia City)
Eilley Oram Bowers (Gold Hill)
Mary Doten (Gold Hill, Virginia City)
Velma Bronn Johnston (Wadsworth)
Anna Warren (Virginia City)
Laura May Tilden Wilson (Virginia City)
Washoe County
Eva Bertrand Adams (Reno)
Alice Merriam Baltzelle Addenbrooke (Reno)
Lois Thompson Allen (Sparks, Sun Valley)
Verna Elizabeth Bullis Anderson (Reno)
Charlotte Hunter Arley (Reno)
Mary Wright Bain (Steamboat Springs)
Edna Catlin Baker (Sparks)
Jessie Parker Beck (Reno)
Barbara Jean Peters Bennett (Reno)
Esther Louise Laiola Bennett (Reno)
Libbie Conover Booth (Reno)
Eilley Oram Bowers (Washoe Valley)
Verna “June” Bradbury Broili (Reno)
Kathleen “Kay” Jane Flaherty Brown (Sparks)
Erma Irene Bruce (Reno)
Florence Sanford Burge (Reno)
Carolyn Jean Adams Talcott Carlon (Reno)
Felice Cohn (Reno)
Martha Patricia Cooke (Reno)
Florence Humphrey Church (Reno)
Hannah Clapp (Reno)
Marguerite H. Gosse Stoddard Clark (Reno)
Joanne de Longchamps (Reno)
Una Dickerson (Reno)
Dorothy Dinsmore (Reno)
Mary Stoddard Doten (Reno)
Alice Gottschalk Downer (Reno)
Bessie R. Lucas Eichelberger (Reno)
Charlotte Rowberry Ellsworth (Reno)
Janice W. Evans (Sparks)
Anna Mariska Shultz Fitch (Washoe City)
Margaret Flick (Reno)
Donna Belle ‘Bonnie’ Pampel Foard (Reno)
Jean Ford (Reno)Katie Frazier (Nixon)
Doris Barbara “Dodie” Post Gann (Reno)
Nancy Sullivan Gomes (Reno)
Marvel Ranson Guisti (Reno)
Eunice Esther Hobbs Hood (Reno)
Frances Marguerite Humphrey (Reno)
Janet Holcomb Hunter (Reno)
Sadie Hurst (Reno)
Velma Bronn Johnston (Reno)
Caroline Frances Best Kelley (Washoe Valley)
Dr. Olga Constantina Lord Kipanidze (Reno)
Mattie “Ma Kiley” Brite Kuhn (Sparks)
Katherine Lewers (Washoe Valley)
Alice Allegra Dove List (Washoe Valley)
Jennie Kelly Logan (Reno)
Effie Mona Mack (Reno)
Sarah Emeline (Emma) Mack (Reno)
Margaret Patricia McCarran (Reno)
Mary Ludmilla McCarran (Reno)
Anne Martin (Reno)
Mila Tupper Maynard (Reno)
Margaret Evangeline (Marge) Means (Reno)
Katharine Norrid Mergen (Reno)
Kathleen Murray (Sister M. Seraphine) (Reno)
Myrtle Tate Myles (Reno)
Helena Suzanne (Lena) Bidwell Norton (Reno)
Elda Ann Williams Orr (Reno)
Ethel May Parker (Reno)
Bertha Raffetto (Reno)
Olga Reifschneider (Reno)
Mary Rose (Reno)
Mary Kiehl Rusco (Reno)
Emma Grace Gibbs Schadler
Helen Rulison Shipley (Reno)
Alice Lucretia Smith (Reno)
Debbie Smith (Sparks)
Barbara Bernhard Smithwick (Reno)
Nancy Elnora Knight Sparks (Reno)
Sallie Maria Ruperti Springmeyer (Reno)
Inez Maria Casale (Booth) Stempeck (Reno-Sparks)
Betty Brang Stoddard-Muncie (Reno)
Margaret Bartlett Thornton (Reno)
Patricia Ann Tripple (Reno)
Lucy Van DeVenter (Reno)
Maud Gill Hall Gassaway Waite (Reno)
Barbara Joan Farrell Bugden Dillon Vucanovich (Reno)
Anna Warren (Reno)
Isabella May “Queenie” Dunn-Webb Hupfel (Reno)
Dr. Jeanne Weir (Reno)
Terry Lee Wells (Reno)
Frances Williamson (Reno)
Hazel Bell Wines (Reno)
Sarah Winnemucca (Pyramid Lake)
Bertha Sanford Woodard (Sparks/Reno)
Sally Springmeyer Zanjani (Reno)
White Pine County
Helen Delich Bentley (Tonopah Canyon)
Katherine Louise Eager Bowdle (Ely, Ruth, McGill)
Virginia Carothers (Ely)
Mary Eldridge (White Pine County)
Jo Anne Brown Garrett (Baker)
Teresa D’Alosio Knight (Lane City, Steptoe Valley, Ely)
Ting Soo Hoo Ong (Ruth, McGill)
Mary Oxborrow (Lund)
Maria Garifalou Pavlakis (Ely)
Josie Pearl (Minerva, Ward District)
Ida Louise Pittman (Ely)
Jennie Riordan (White River Valley)
Elizabeth Marie Rasmussen Sundberg (Cherry Creek)