When Marie Mariba Ford was born on 9 April 1903, in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States, her father, Parley Ford, was 31 and her mother, Florence Witty Wilson, was 25. She married William Paul Trisler on 31 December 1925, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States. She lived in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States in 1935 and San Rafael Judicial Township, Marin, California, United States in 1940. She died on 13 April 1992, in Stanislaus, California, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Mount Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael, Marin, California, United States.