When Lydia Lucille Brantner was born on 21 March 1912, in East Grand Forks, Polk, Minnesota, United States, her father, Daniel F. Brantner, was 26 and her mother, Regina Frederika Dutt, was 28. She married Ariah Coats Brower on 29 October 1927, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States in 1930 and Burley Election Precinct 2, Cassia, Idaho, United States in 1940. She died on 18 January 2013, at the age of 100.