Musical director and arranger Gordon Munford was born June 8, 1929 in California. He was a nine year resident of Las Vegas, a member of the Musicians Union and the American Symphony Orchestra League, and past board member for the Association of Musical Arrangers. Munford directed and conducted more than 65 musicals from off Broadway’s “Little Mary Sunshine” to the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit “1776.”

Helen (Collins) Morelli was born in 1905 the oldest of nine children born to Elizabeth McCann and James P. Collins. Her father was an New York Police Department officer and suffered a heart attack, which widowed her mother. Helen helped her mother raise her siblings as both her mother and her uncle (who moved in after her father's death) worked outside of the home to support the family.

Nathan Adelson was the administrator of Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada during the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Omaha, Nebraska and raised in Los Angeles, California, Adelson was in the supermarket business before he moved to Las Vegas in 1961. His son Merv Adelson, along with Irwin Molasky, built Sunrise Hospital and recruited Nathan Adelson to be its administrator. He was well-loved for his dedication to patient care and was known affectionately as "Mr. A" to the hospital staff.

Clara G. Monson was born in 1887 in Wisconsin. In 1922, along with her husband Fred, she moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. The couple had no children, but Clara and her niece were close all of her life. She passed away in 1978.

Source:

Fred A. and Clara G. Monson Papers, 1860s-1976. MS-00207. Special Collections and Archives,

University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.