When Retta Fowler was born on 20 February 1884, in Randolph, Indiana, United States, her father, Samuel Harrison Fowler, was 26 and her mother, Lydia Puterbaugh, was 26. She married Edward Warren on 8 November 1902, in Randolph, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 26 August 1968, in Union City, Randolph, Indiana, United States, at the age of 84.