When Merna Opal Rogers was born on 28 June 1906, in Kearney, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States, her father, John W Rodgers, was 40 and her mother, Luella May Tracy, was 33. She married Robert E Lynn on 2 June 1929, in Kearney, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States in 1935 and Justice Precinct 1, Johnson, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 4 March 1998, in Ooltewah, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 91.