Mary Hausch was born September of 1949 in Akron, Ohio. Hausch arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada during a spring vacation with four friends. The spontaneity of the trip and her enjoyment of the weather resulted in her applying for, and getting, a reporter position at the Las Vegas Review- Journal (R-J). For the next nineteen years, she worked her way up the newspaper ladder, covered local education issues that included desegregation, a groundbreaking series of Prisoners of War- Missing in Action war stories, and the Nevada legislature.
Charlotte Conti was born Charlotte Anne Easton on December 13, 1941 in Arkansas. She was a hairdresser and physical education instructor for the St. Francis School.
Marie Horseley was born on October 13, 1924 in Springdale, Utah. She married Howard Horseley in 1944 and the two moved into the historic John S. Park neighborhood in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Helen M. Baucum was born November 03, 1920 in Batesville, Arkansas. Baucum lived in Arkansas until she was seventeen. Baucum was twice married in Nevada and once divorced in Nevada.
Danel Boone was born May 27, 1932 in Donnellson, Illinois. He first moved to Nevada in 1953 before relocating to California in 1956, only to return to Nevada in 1964.
John L. Houck was born in Butte, Montana on May 11, 1944 to Vernon Houck and Mary (Kiehn) Houck. Houck and his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1953.