When Lenta Leona Patton was born on 11 May 1899, in Shaw, Marion, Oregon, United States, her father, John LaFayette Patton, was 28 and her mother, Mary Mae Howd, was 27. She married Harl Mallory Shumway on 6 June 1919, in Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States for about 10 years and Woodburn, Marion, Oregon, United States in 1970. She died on 17 August 1996, in Kirkland, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 97.