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==Early lives== '''William Jan Berry''' (April 3, 1941 β March 26, 2004), was born in [[Los Angeles]] to Clara Lorentze Mustad (born September 2, 1919, [[Bergen]], [[Norway]] β died July 9, 2009) and aeronautical [[engineer]] William L. Berry (born December 7, 1909, New York City β died December 19, 2004, [[Camarillo, California]]),<ref name="Ancestry 2011">Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.</ref> He was raised in [[Bel Air, Los Angeles|Bel Air]], Los Angeles.<ref name= "Telegraph obit">{{cite news| title= Jan Berry|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1457963/Jan-Berry.html|work=The Telegraph|location=UK|date=March 29, 2004|access-date=October 20, 2017}}</ref> Jan's father worked for [[Howard Hughes]]<ref name= "Telegraph obit"/> as a project manager of the [[Hughes H-4 Hercules|"Spruce Goose"]] and flew on its only flight with Hughes.<ref name="Ancestry 2011"/><ref>''Los Angeles Times'' (16 July 2009). Ancestry.com. United States Obituary Collection [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.</ref><ref>Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Year: 1930; Census Place: Compton, Los Angeles, California; Roll: 125; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 897; Image: 1073.0; FHL microfilm: 2339860.</ref> '''Dean Ormsby Torrence''' (born {{Birth date and age|1940|3|10}}) was born in Los Angeles, the son of Natalie Ormsby (April 10, 1911 β August 10, 2008) and Maurice Dean Torrence (December 5, 1907 β November 16, 1997).<ref>Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index. Number: 546-07-7303; Issue State: California.</ref><ref>Ancestry.com. California Death Index, 1940β1997 [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.</ref> His father, Maurice, was a graduate of [[Stanford University]],<ref>''Quad'' Yearbook, Stanford University (1930):336. Ancestry.com. U.S. School Yearbooks [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.</ref> and was a sales manager at the [[Wilshire Oil Company]].
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