When Lela Emily Edwards was born on 23 October 1907, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States, her father, Jesse Lairwood Edwards, was 31 and her mother, Ida Matilda Bybee, was 20. She married Frederick Everett on 5 June 1926, in Bonneville, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States in 1935 and Taylor Election Precinct, Bonneville, Idaho, United States in 1940. She died on 5 June 1999, in Cottage Grove, Lane, Oregon, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Roseburg, Douglas, Oregon, United States.