When Myrtle Dyer was born on 29 March 1898, in Wayne, West Virginia, United States, her father, Simpson Dyer, was 41 and her mother, Caroline Julia Cox, was 39. She married Norman James Artrup on 29 May 1922, in Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Melvindale, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1935 and Lincoln Park, Lincoln Park, Wayne, Michigan Territory, United States in 1940. She died in 1969, at the age of 71.