When Gertrude Josephine Mischler was born on 27 July 1907, in Springbrook, Washburn, Wisconsin, United States, her father, George Louis Mishler, was 29 and her mother, Josephine Evaline Larson, was 24. She married Adrian Burton Eytcheson on 13 August 1927. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Chippewa Falls, Chippewa, Wisconsin, United States in 1920. She died on 1 November 1983, in Rice Lake, Barron, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Rice Lake, Barron, Wisconsin, United States.