Rosemary Witt was born in Columbia, Iowa. She went to Iowa Methodist Hospital, School of Nursing in Des Moines, Iowa and moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa to become a pediatric nurse. Witt was Chair of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ School of Nursing.

Greta Mills was born October 28, 1928 in Charleston, West Virginia. She met Hughie Mills in New York and got married in 1954. She became a librarian at Columbia University and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1989 with her husband.