When Lois Cecil Nickerson was born on 3 April 1889, in Vestaburg, Montcalm, Michigan, United States, her father, John W. Nickerson, was 28 and her mother, Lunietta Cordelia Miner, was 24. She married Charles Judson Bready on 10 September 1906, in Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Aurora, Kane, Illinois, United States in 1920 and Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States for about 5 years. She died on 3 December 1974, in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States, at the age of 85.