When Violeta Graciela Lopez Cornejo was born on 15 October 1919, in Iquique, Chile, her father, Tomas Daniel Lopez, was 27 and her mother, Felisa Graciela Pacheco Cornejo, was 20. She married Manuel Raul Carrasco Perez in Iquique, Chile. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 6 December 2006, in Iquique, Tarapacá, Chile, at the age of 87.