When Estha Josephine Browne was born on 17 February 1901, in Greeley, Weld, Colorado, United States, her father, Frederick William Browne, was 34 and her mother, Nellie Edith Nelson, was 21. She married Ervin Merle Ormsbee on 27 August 1917, in Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Eureka, Juab, Utah, United States in 1930 and Cripple Creek, Teller, Colorado, United States in 1940. She died on 24 June 1987, in Sonora, Tuolumne, California, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Westcliffe, Custer, Colorado, United States.