When Doralice Soares Casimiro was born on 19 March 1917, in Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil, her father, Antonio Soares da Silva, was 33 and her mother, Eudócia Soares da Silva, was 25. She died on 22 July 1989, in her hometown, at the age of 72, and was buried in Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil.