When Ethel Hostetter was born on 2 December 1881, in Noble, Indiana, United States, her father, Adolphus Hostetter, was 34 and her mother, Electa Ann Jones, was 32. She married Virgil Edward Giggy on 9 April 1902, in LaGrange, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Lagrange, LaGrange, Indiana, United States in 1930 and Bloomfield Township, LaGrange, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died in September 1973, in LaGrange, Indiana, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, LaGrange, Indiana, United States.