Elton Dale Scheideman was born on April 19, 1933 in Ellis, Kansas. He attended the University of Kansas School of Architecture in the 1950s, where he entered a number of student competitions. In 1958, Scheideman entered the United States Air Force and retired in 1988 as a colonel. He later worked for a private architectural firm in St. Louis, Missouri, but moved to Southern Nevada in January 1991 to work as an architect and the Director of New School and Facility Planning for the Clark County School District.

Ruthadele Stearns Doyal Lathrop was born Ruthadele Margaret Tapper on February 17, 1918 in Wisconsin, the daughter of Samuel E. Tapper and Meta G. (Brennecke) Tapper. In 1944, Ruthadele married her first husband, James Anthony Cone in California. They divorced soon after and Ruthadele married Charles R. Stearns and had a son, Charles “Chic” Stearns, Jr. In 1963, she married her third husband, Jerry M. Doyle. By 1969, they were no longer together and she married William O. Lathrop.

Noll Gray Thompson was born April 05, 1919 in Durham, North Carolina. Thompson was raised in a devout Christian household. He joined the United States Navy in 1941 and was stationed in San Francisco, California where he met his wife. They married in 1946 and remained married for 64 years. Thompson and his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1989. He was a poet that wrote about protests and gay love in the Las Vegas Bugle for many years. Thompson died November 13, 2010.