When Gloria América Ana Andrade Arteaga was born on 10 November 1919, in Mejía, Pichincha, Ecuador, her father, Jacinto Viterbo Andrade Arteaga, was 49 and her mother, Maura Arteaga Vera, was 27. She married Antonio Alcívar Alcívar on 30 January 1941, in Chone, Manabí, Ecuador. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 17 April 2007, in Chone, Manabí, Ecuador, at the age of 87.