Hailing from Punjab, Virinder Bansal came to New York in 1970. An engineer by training, Mr. Bansal moved to Channel view, Texas in 1975 to work as a supervisor on an oil rig. He worked for Lummus Company and worked briefly in Iraq in 1978, after which he found a job in Houston-based Kellogg Company. He lives with his wife as well as his adult son, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren in an expanded house in southwest-central Houston. His son specifically sought an orphaned woman to marry and has been married for seven years.