Brian Cram was born in Caliente, Nevada. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1939. Cram worked as Clark County School District Superintendent from 1989 to 2000.
Dorothy Loheding was born to Bertina Shoemaker and Fred Lohrding on January 16, 1894 in Kansas. She married Claude W. Thompson (1890-1973) in 1919. They later lived in Caliente in Lincoln County, Nevada. By 1940, the couple lived in Las Vegas where Claude worked as a brakeman for the railroad. Dorothy Thompson died in Las Vegas on October 9, 1981.