![]() Slowly, Lonnie faded from view personally. In later years the “Hammargren Home of Nevada History,” as a sign called it, was opened to the public a single weekend a year, to the annoyance of some neighbors in the upper-class neighborhood–until after he lost one house to the bank amid mounting debts. Lonnie was also a nationally known hoarder, living in three adjoining Las Vegas houses he bought to store his thousands of collected items. ![]() He was elected Nevada lieutenant governor–but subsequently came in third in a Republican primary bid for governor due to little party support. In a medically underserved state he had been one of Nevada’s first neurosurgeons–sometimes controversial, eventually giving up his practice citing huge insurance premiums, perhaps due to publicly notedmalpractice settlements/complaints. Life-size long-ago campaign poster of Lonnie Hammargren in the street gutter at his home a few days after his deathīoy was the life of Lonnie Hammargren a terrific story. ![]()
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