On the flight, chaperones Lyn Watson and Stephanie Hagaman sat next to each other and realized that Watson's mother, Beth Fordyce, and Hagaman's grandmother, Refugio Garza, were sitting next to each other a few rows ahead of them. Fordyce turned 94 on Monday, and Garza turns 97 on Wednesday.
Lyn Watson, an Ames homemaker, voted for Romney in the 2008 caucus but is considering Paul this time. "He feels so strongly about his views," she said, "and he has a good base of people following him."