When Hazel Mildred Buker was born on 15 June 1895, in Alpine, Utah, Utah, United States, her father, William Henry Buker, was 24 and her mother, Laura Adelaide Andrews, was 21. She married Ernest Greenwood Hunter on 5 September 1916, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Petersburg, Alaska Territory, United States in 1935 and Marietta, Whatcom, Washington, United States in 1940. She died on 22 March 1986, in Snohomish, Washington, United States, at the age of 90.