Irmalee Anne Gray Ross was born December 23, 1938 to Irma Niles Gray and R. Guild Gray and was raised in Reno, Nevada. She married her husband, R. Ian Ross, on September 02, 1961. Gray Ross worked as a teacher at Las Vegas Day School and retired after 13 years.

Las Vegas, Nevada comedic entertainer Nancy Byrne Austin was born in Silver Springs, Maryland in 1934. She received her education at the University of Maryland, earning a degree in Education. She taught elementary school for a short time before committing full time to show business. She began performing comedy in New York City in the 1950s and moved to Las Vegas in the early 1960s. Austin made an initial impression as one of the original cast members of the popular Las Vegas daytime review Bottoms Up.