Jim Marsh was born December 25, 1933 in Denver, Colorado. His father was the chief for the Colorado Patrol and his mother lived in Nebraska, so he split his time in both places while growing up. He was a service member of the United States Army upon his discharge from the service, he started working with his father at a Ford dealership.

Sophie Bogdanovich Romans was born in Washington, Utah in 1934 to Rosa Zahner and George Bogdanovich. She moved to Blue Diamond, Nevada as an infant, where she lived for many years. She has three siblings--George D. Bogdanovich, Angie Bogdanovich DeLong, and Nina Bogdanovich Wolters. She married Herbert Romans in 1951 at the Little Church of the West (Las Vegas, Nevada). She has five childresn, Richard, Sandra, Christina, Robert, and Linc.