When Susan Kathryn Hayes was born on 14 February 1902, in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States, her father, John Leander Hayes, was 28 and her mother, Bertha Elizabeth Dunn, was 27. She married Herschel Reed White on 6 October 1920, in Madison, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Alameda, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1930 and Alameda Election Precinct 2, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1940. She died on 14 November 1993, in Union City, Obion, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Union City, Obion, Tennessee, United States.