Freda Klein was born on May 17, 1920. She graduated from the University of Washington in 1942, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. By the mid-1960s she was living in Las Vegas with her husband and three children. In 1966 she began her career with the State of Nevada Employment Security Department. She also returned to school, eventually earning a Master's degree at age 49 and a doctorate at age 59. In 1978 she became the head of the Office of the Employment Security Department in Henderson, Nevada.

Minnie Perchetti was born on June 26, 1920 in Tonopah, Nevada to Yugoslavian parents. She married Tony Perchetti in June 1937 in Hawthorne, Nevada when she was seventeen. She lived in Manhattan, Nevada for a brief period before returning to Tonopah. Her father, brothers, and husband worked in the Belmont and Mizpah mines in Tonopah. As of 2020, Minnie Perchetti lives in Tonopah, Nevada.

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Richard Fay "Chick" Perkins was born on March 3, 1915, in Overton, Nevada. He participated in his first archaeological expedition at age 17 and three years later formed a partnership with Dr. William S. Park to excavate, save, and record certain Lost City ruins. In 1956, he replaced his father, Fay Perkins, as curator of the Lost City Museum and remained in that position until his retirement in 1980. Perkins died on January 3, 1996, and is buried at Pioneer Hill Memorial Cemetery in Moapa Valley, Nevada.

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