Joyce Moore was born May 8, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois. Her family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in December of 1953. Moore attended school at Sunrise Acres Elementary School until eighth grade and then went to Rancho High School, graduating in 1962. As of 2018, she works as an archivist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Patricia Bryan was born in Alexandria, Minnesota on March 17, 1917.She is the oldest of two children. She graduated from an elite girls boarding school in 1935 during the Great Depression. She attended college at the University of California, Los Angeles and Northwestern University. Byran married her college sweetheart at age 22 after finishing school at Northwestern. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1947 and worked as a housewife.