Clark County NV Archives Obituaries.....PATTERSON, Effie McNamee June 27 1990
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Las Vegas Sun - 6/30/1990
MEMBER OF PIONEER MC NAMEE FAMILY DIES



    Effie McNamee PATTERSON, granddaughter of Frank R. MC NAMEE Sr., one of 

the founding fathers of Las Vegas, died at her home in Pasadena, Calif. on 

Wednesday.  She was 85.

    Frank R. MC NAMEE, Sr., PATTERSON's grandfather, was a 

turn-of-the-century resident of Delamar, Nev. and attorney in Nevada for the 

Union Pacific Railroad which wanted at the time to construct a watering stop 

and repair facility in the then empty Las Vegas Valley.

    MC NAMEE secured the Union Pacific's water rights for the project by 

purchasing the rights from the major ranches here at the time, the Kyle, 

Stewart and Cottonwood Springs ranches.

    Once its water rights were secured in 1905, the Union Pacific auctioned 

off townsite lots that became downtown Las Vegas.

    Effie MC NAMEE was born in Delamar but lived most of her life in Los 

Angeles and Pasadena.  She is survived by [omitted]

    She was the twin sister of the late Frank R. MC NAMEE, Jr., a Nevada 

Supreme Court Justice in the 1950s and 1960s.  He was chief justice of the 

state supreme court during most of the 1960s.

    The MC NAMEE family is still prominent in Nevada legal circles.





   

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