Horacio Lopez was born on January 12, 1938, in Cordova, New Mexico to Elias and Cordelia Lopez. Lopez describes his hometown as self-sufficient and self-reliant and that his family grew their own food and raised livestock. His father only received a second-grade education and worked as a miner.
Virginia Velasquez was born January 22, 1978 and raised in Henderson, Nevada. She worked as a bartender while also being a member of the Sierra Club, a non-profit organization focused on improving Nevada’s natural environment.
David Peinado was born March 25, 1970 in Mexico. His family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1989. He married his wife, Diana, on September 24, 1994 in Las Vegas. Peinado held a career as a bartender.
Rosemary Christian-Keach was born October 31, 1960 and was raised in California. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1976. She married her husband, Lee, on October 23, 1998 at Lake Tahoe. Christian-Keach held a career as a bartender.
George E. Franklin Sr. was born in England in 1890. He lived in Las Vegas, Nevada after immigrating to America. George published two books, From Cotswolds to High Sierras (1966) and The Fallacy of Appeasment (1968). George Franklin passed away in 1971.
Source:
George E. Franklin Sr. Papers, 1966-1968. MS-00129. Special Collections and Archives, University
Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
C.E. Hansley was born in North Central Arkansas. He left Arkansas in 1898 for West Texas. In Texas, Hansley went to school until the third grade and he came to Nevada in 1950 for mining work. Besides mining, Hansley also worked in mills and as a dish washer when he was younger. He had four daughters.