Patricia Bearce was born in 1938 and moved to Nevada in 1940 when she was two years old. She was educated in Southern Nevada and attended Las Vegas High School. She attended Nevada College of Commerce. She worked in a few offices and then went to work for Episcopal Church until her daughter Debbie was born. Bearce was married on July 06, 1957.
Lewis Whitley was born in Washington, Texas, but moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1946 to live with his grandfather. He met his wife June at the First Baptist Church in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and they married in 1955. They moved to a home in Las Vegas in 1958. He worked as a cook at the Nevada Test Site and was a a fire hydrant inspector for the Clark County Fire Department until his retirement in 2007.
Ruth Annette Mills was born December 13, 1932 and was raised in Washington, D.C.. Mills and her husband, Charles Mills, lived in Georgia, Texas, and Maryland before coming to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1968. She worked as a typist for the Office of Education at one point and did volunteer work for her church, the Cub Scouts, and the League of Women Voters (LWV). Mills also worked as a clerk-typist for the Clark County School District, and eventually became a teacher through the Teacher Corps program.