When Lois May Shoemaker was born on 30 July 1916, in Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, United States, her father, James Willard Shoemaker, was 21 and her mother, Alice Lamb Sanger, was 19. She married Fred Joseph Carl on 30 July 1933, in Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 13 February 1993, in Toppenish, Yakima, Washington, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Zillah, Yakima, Washington, United States.