When Thelma Pearl Andrews was born on 18 August 1899, in Baker City, Baker, Oregon, United States, her father, Charles Wesley Andrews, was 23 and her mother, Etta Pearl Hopper, was 21. She married Phillip Livingston Hawley on 15 December 1922, in Baker City, Baker, Oregon, United States. She lived in Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, United States in 1930 and Portland, Washington, Oregon, United States in 1950. She died on 16 March 1974, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 74.