When Elsie Lorraine McReynolds was born on 5 April 1913, in Denton, Denton, Texas, United States, her father, Leonard Wesley McReynolds, was 35 and her mother, Lora Elna Thomason, was 25. She married Albert O Wehrle on 2 March 1971, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. She died on 23 March 1993, in San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.