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Norman Christiansen was born on October 11th, 1931 in Red Lodge, Montana. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956 after graduating college in Montana. Christiansen worked at the Nevada Test Site for two years and was a teacher at various schools.
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Gordon Chrisite was born on March 9th, 1916 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1958. He worked as a carpenter. He helped build numerous hotels including the MGM Grand, Fremont, Desert Inn, and the Sahara.
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Betty Joyce (Bearden) Clark was born in Cartersville, Georgia on April 24, 1940. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1947. She was a hairdresser, grocery checker, and secretary bookeeper. She married Ray Clark on June 09, 1959.
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Donald Edward Borsack was born in Bell, California on February 28, 1928. Borsack moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1936. Borsack has worked as a insurance adjuster, clothing salesman, and proprietor and owner of four El Portal Luggage stores.
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Mary Hawkins moved to Southern Nevada in 1942. She moved to Nevada from Texas with her first husband. Hawkins was self-employed, running a cafe in Nevada, and she was also a housewife. Hawkins remarried in 1945, after her first husband died.
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Jean Bennett went to California from Missouri to pursue her dreams of being a singer. She worked for Buck Ram, who wrote, produced and/or arranged for the Platters, the Drifters, and many more singing groups of early rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues genres.
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