Bertha Raffetto

Bertha Eaton Raffetto (March 15, 1885 – September 6, 1952) was an American teacher and civic worker, best known composing the song "Home Means Nevada", which was adopted as the official state song for Nevada in 1932.

Biography Bertha Eaton was born in Bloomfield, Iowa, March 15, 1885. She was the eldest daughter of Enoch Henry and Susan Frances Walker Eaton. She settled in Reno, Nevada after she became sick while on a train bound for California.

In the 1910s, Raffetto was married to Henry Clyde Hough, brother to writer Emerson Hough, as well as John William Frederick Myers from Utah, both of whom she later divorced. She married her third husband, Reno divorce attorney, Fiore Raffetto in 1922. She was a 25-year-member of the Reno branch of the National League of American Pen Women and was the poet laureate of the Nevada Federation of Women's Club. She died in Reno, aged 77.