When Gladys May Hunter was born on 22 December 1907, in Sault Sainte Marie, Algoma, Ontario, Canada, her father, James Alexander Hunter Iron Worker, was 38 and her mother, Josephine Pound, was 35. She married William James Kennedy Godfrey on 5 October 1929, in Sault Sainte Marie, Algoma, Ontario, Canada. She lived in Algoma, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 10 December 2008, in Sault Sainte Marie, Algoma, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 100.