Dorothy O’Donnell George was born in 1921 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. After serving as a nurse in World War II in Hawaii, Okinawa and Japan, George returned home. She experienced a particularly bad winter and set out for California, but stopped in Las Vegas, Nevada to visit the family of her traveling companion, a girlfriend from her hometown. George applied for a nursing license, got it three days later, and never returned to Wisconsin.

Jim Hodge was born May 31, 1927 in Ashville, North Carolina. Born and raised in the South, he enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of 17, just as World War II was winding down. His primary job was that of a cook.

JoNell Thomas was born February 11, 1966 and grew up in Murray, Utah in a large family. She attended college at Utah State and the law school at University of Utah. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1992 and held multiple careers from being a staff attorney with a Las Vegas firm to an attorney with the Clark County Special Public Defender’s office. Thomas, her husband, Billy Logan, and their twin daughters have lived in the John S. Park Neighborhood since 2001.

Anne Kellogg was born May 19, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her paternal family came to Las Vegas in the 1950s and her mother arrived in the late 1960s to teach. After her parents married, they set up their first home in the John S. Park neighborhood.

Dennis Ortwein was raised in a small town in Montana called Harlowton, the second oldest of seven children. He arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956. Once in Las Vegas, Ortwein taught for a while, served as principal, and was involved in creating programs that helped integrate schools. He was also involved with his church choir, the entertainment industry in early Las Vegas, above-ground testing at the Nevada Test Site, and anti-nuclear protests.

Marian Wojciechowski was born April 25, 1914 in a region called Poland just as World War I was beginning. He grew up there when the country did not technically exist, and their language was forbidden. By the 1930s and the dawning of World War II, Wojciechowski was a young man struggling to understand what was transpiring, but knowing that he must participate in the Polish underground resistance against the Germans.

Berkeley Bunker was born August 12, 1906 in St. Thomas, Nevada. His grandfather was a Mormon pioneer who moved the family to Southern Nevada. Bunker attended Moapa Valley High School in Overton, Nevada, and graduated from Las Vegas High School in 1926. After graduating from high school, Bunker filled a Mormon Mission for the church in the Southern States Mission. He met his wife during his mission and was married in the St. George Mormon Temple in St. George, Utah in 1933. Bunker passed away January 21, 1999.