When Sylvia Elzada Kelley was born on 1 July 1918, in Panaca, Lincoln, Nevada, United States, her father, Charles Milton Kelley, was 18 and her mother, Ida Loretta Hansen, was 21. She married Harry Milton Pointer on 27 April 1939, in Yakima, Yakima, Washington, United States. She lived in Klamath, Oregon, United States in 1935 and Election Precinct 48 Fairview, Yakima, Washington, United States in 1940. She died on 25 June 2010, in Longview, Cowlitz, Washington, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Hudson Cemetery, Columbia, Oregon Territory, United States.