Grandparents are Carole Plesser and the late Stanley Plesser of Prairie Village and Joel and Gayla Taylor of Wichita, Kan.
Paternal great-grandparents are the late Sally and Harry Plesser, formerly of Kansas City and later of Chicago; and the late Jack Friedman, the late Frances Friedman, and the late Helen Wagner, all of New York, N.Y. Maternal great-grandparents are Marion Taylor and the late V. Jean Taylor along with the late Robert and Virginia Reynolds, all of Wichita.