When Rena May Thacher was born on 13 September 1884, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Wilbur Fisk Thacher, was 34 and her mother, Henrietta Draper Stanley, was 28. She married Raymond Ashley Fancy on 17 May 1916, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years. She died on 1 September 1970, at the age of 85.