Louis Charles Ainsworth was born on July 22, 1921 in Manchester, New Hampshire. He served in the United States Air Force from 1942 to 1946 as a corporal and settled in Silver City, New Mexico. He married Mary Helen Rowley, who survived him after his death in 1986. He had five children, two from his marriage with Mary Helen and three from a previous marriage to Betty Jean Conger. He passed away on July 18, 1986 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Darrell A. Bradford was born on March 19, 1930 in Spanish Fork, Utah to Moses Bradford and Anna Rigtrup. Bradford worked as an assistant manager at Alamo Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada before it was sold in 1948 by its owners, George and Peg Crockett, to Clark County and renamed McCarran International Airport. Bradford married Ruth Young in Elko, Nevada in May of 1954. Bradford died on December 22, 1996.
Actor and vaudeville performer Eugene Strong was born on August 9, 1893 to Jean Chistopherson and Peter Strong in Wisconsin, United States. He performed on stage in The Virginian for two years before entering a forty-week vaudeville tour on To Save One Girl. Strong also appeared as Endicott on Howard Hughes' The Front Page (1931).
Robert Joseph Curran was born on August 31, 1934 in St. Louis, Missouri. Robert married Mary Ward on September 1, 1969 and they had three children: Kathlees (1970-06-29), Elizabeth (1973-08-26), and Patricia (1977-02-14).
Curran obtained a bachelor of arts degree in history and political science from the University of Missouri in 1956. Curran then obtained a juris doctor degree from the University of Missouri in 1962.