Wendy Starkweather was born July 1, 1949 and was raised in rural Ogdensburg, New York. She attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York and became a teacher and librarian in New Hampshire. She married her husband, Peter, on August 26, 1972 in Schenectady, New York and the couple moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1978.

Dayvid Figler was born August 18, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. He was four years old when the family station wagon reached Las Vegas, Nevada in 1971. Figler’s father soon became a Pan dealer on the Strip. As the family grew, his mother, Barbara, immersed her energies in her children’s activities, Hadassah and Temple Beth Sholom. Figler graduated from Valley High School at the age of 16 and by the age of 23 he was rising in the legal world. He was also a local essayist and poet.

Harvey Diederich was born in 1920 in Chicago, Illinois and worked as a journalist for the Las Vegas News Bureau.

Nel Downing was born in Louisiana. Downing came to Nevada in October of 1946. Her son was born in 1947.

Ethel S. Hatch was born April 11, 1914 in Valentine, Texas to Pat Spruill and Ella Mayfield.