When Elizabeth Thompson was born on 6 November 1919, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Lynn Harrison Thompson, was 31 and her mother, Dorothy J Zumwalt, was 25. She married William Charles Rowley on 31 August 1940, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Salt Lake City Ward 5, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 16 May 1980, in San Rafael, Marin, California, United States, at the age of 60.