When Loretta May Kelley was born on 4 February 1878, in Clark Township, Faribault, Minnesota, United States, her father, Washington Wayne Kelley, was 29 and her mother, Mary Catherine Schermerhorn, was 27. She married Walter Conelison MARCHAEL on 8 June 1897, in Hennepin, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Faribault, Minnesota, United States in 1878 and Wells, Faribault, Minnesota, United States for about 40 years. She died on 20 November 1960, in Redmond, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.