When Edite Rodrigues Bezerra was born on 21 July 1919, in Olho d'Água, Camocim, Ceará, Brazil, her father, Coriolano Bezerra da Rocha, was 28 and her mother, Raimunda Rodrigues da Fonseca, was 20. She married Francisco Horacio Queiroz Viana on 16 June 1936, in Caio Prado, Itapiúna, Ceará, Brazil. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 26 August 1969, in Baturité, Ceará, Brazil, at the age of 50.