When Joanna Blanch Coughlin was born on 19 November 1909, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Albert Joseph Coughlin, was 24 and her mother, Helen Frances Carey, was 21. She married Ernest Passey on 19 September 1935, in Los Angeles, California, United States. She lived in El Monte Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 12 March 1968, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 58.