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Myrna Williams (politician)
Myrna Torme Williams (born August 26, 1929) is an American politician. She was a political figure whose career extends from 1985 to 2007 and includes ten years in the Nevada Assembly as well as twelve years in the local government of Clark County, which encompasses the city of Las Vegas. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
==Early years==
Myrna Torme was born in Chicago to a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants and, while her mother was born after her family arrived in America, her father, William, called "Bill", was a child dancer in Russia who had won dozens of contests and even took lessons from the legendary master of the ballet, Vaslav Nijinsky. Coming to America at the age of eleven, along with his father, mother and two younger brothers, he saw his youngest sibling, sister Faye, who was born in New York, achieve fame as the "Wonder Frisco Dancer" when, almost immediately following the family's move to Chicago in 1917, at the outbreak of World War I, she became a star performer at war bond rallies.〔Tormé, Mel (1988). ''It Wasn't All Velvet''. New York: Viking Adult〕
In Summer 1923, Bill Torme met Betty Sopkin at a wedding reception in the Morrison Hotel and they subsequently married in January 1924, with their first child, son Melvin, arriving in September 1925. In his autobiography, ''It Wasn't All Velvet'', Melvin, who gained stardom as the recording artist, songwriter and personality, Mel Tormé, recounts that the family surname had originally been "Torma", but an Ellis Island immigration official inscribed it as "Torme". Three weeks before his fourth birthday, and two months before the Wall Street Crash of 1929, his mother gave birth to his only sister, Myrna, who, according to him, was named after Myrna Loy, a young silent-screen actress still five years away from becoming a major movie star. He describes young Myrna as an especially pretty baby that, at the age of ten months, developed meningitis and required the removal of a mastoid, which left her with lifelong astigmatism.
In 1934, at the age of five, she, along with Melvin, was enrolled in Chicago's Shakespeare Grammar School on the city's South Side and, in 1943, as Melvin, now Mel, was appearing in his first film, ''Higher and Higher'', the family moved to Los Angeles, renting an apartment in the vicinity of the Wilshire Miracle Mile. In 1947, following her 18th birthday, Myrna moved to New York intending to explore a career in the art and/or modeling industry. Six years later, while attending a party, she met musician David Williams and, during a second date, they decided to marry, with the marriage lasting over 50 years, until his death in January 2006. Williams, born in 1925, played the drums and served as a session musician for a number of top acts, including Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. during the Rat Pack's performances in Las Vegas.
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