CLARK NV Archives Obituaries.....[HICKS, Marion B. - 9/10/1961]
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Las Vegas Sun, 9/12/1961
  
HICKS, Marion B. - 57, influential Las Vegas gambling industry pioneer 
expired Sept. 10th at the Scripps Clinic in LaJolla, Calif.  Mr. Hicks was 
born in Joplin, Mo., on April 13, 1904.  He was  successful in a variety of 
business ventures in California and in 1941 he with a group of other men 
built and opened the El Cortez, then the El Rancho Vegas and the equally 
successful Last Frontier and Flamingo Hotels.  In 1948 he opened the 
Thunderbird over which he maintained active control until his illness.  
Hicks also owned the Algiers, and built the Silver Palace, which has 
since been sold.  Surviving him are [omitted].

Services are being arranged here by the Palm Mortuary.