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Traffic delays expected during Tuesday’s funeral procession from mortuary
Published Monday, July 26, 2010 | 11:30 a.m.
Updated Monday, July 26, 2010 | 4:36 p.m.
Metro police announced today that parking will be limited for services honoring former Gov. Kenny Guinn tonight and Tuesday at St. Joseph, Husband of Mary Catholic Church in Las Vegas.
"Members of the public should consider car-pooling to these events as parking will be very limited," police said in an announcement this morning.
The public should also expect traffic delays during the funeral procession, police said. The procession to the church begins at 9:30 a.m. at Palm Mortuary, 1600 South Jones Boulevard.
As the procession leaves from Palm Mortuary, heading southbound, Jones Boulevard will be closed, police said. When the motorcade reaches Oakey Boulevard and begins to head west, only eastbound traffic on the road will be allowed, police said.
Police said no traffic would be allowed between Sahara Avenue and Oakey Boulevard along Tenaya Way as the procession arrives at the church.
Guinn’s funeral Mass is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday at the church.
A Rosary service will be held at 7 p.m. today at the church, 7260 W. Sahara, followed by a public viewing.
Guinn, who served eight years as Nevada’s governor during the state’s most rapid growth period, died Thursday. He was 73.
A Republican, Guinn was Nevada's governor from January 1999 until the end of his second term in 2006. He also served as superintendent of the Clark County School District from 1969 to 1978, and was interim president of UNLV from 1994 to 1995.
In lieu of flowers, the Guinn family has asked that donations be made to the Kenny C. Guinn Millennium Scholarship fund. Guinn helped establish the fund to help high school students in Nevada attend public colleges within the state.
Guinn is survived by his wife, Dema, and two sons, Jeff and Steve.
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Why is it when someone dies ,all of a sudden they were the greatest person on earth? He wasn't all that and a bag of chips, he just looked good compared to Gibbons, which isn't hard to do. The truth is he failed at just about everything he did. School district in the red when he quit, nevada power and southwest gas in the red when he quit. State of Nevada in the red when he left and look who he left it to. The one thing he did was the scholorship program from the tobbacco lawsuit money and thats it. Rest in peace Mr.Guinn ya had em all fooled.
Kenny Guinn was the best thing to happen to Las Vegas and Nevada and we are all better off today because of his tireless and thankless (see the above comments) efforts. Such an honest and honorable man--he was one in a billion.
To fedup2here: "In November 2005, Time magazine named him one of the five best governors in the U.S..
In 2006, Guinn declined to endorse Jim Gibbons, the Republican nominee for Governor of Nevada, due to bitter disagreements between the two politicians." From wikipedia
Thought you might like to know the FACTS, fedup2here. And Kenny Guinn didn't become a great person when he died; he just happened to always be a great person. We Nevadans are humbled and heartbroken because Kenny died when we needed him most. God Bless a Kenny Guinn-less Nevada.
How does Guinn get a funeral at a Catholic Church if he was not Catholic?
If it does not matter what your beliefs are, then, since this article is about limited parking, why not hold Guinn's funeral at whatever venue has the most parking spaces?