When Vivian Loretta Lunsford was born on 4 May 1908, in Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, United States, her father, John William Lunsford, was 32 and her mother, Ora Conley, was 27. She married Charles Edward Johnson on 8 December 1923. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Kenmore, Erie, New York, United States in 1940. She died on 6 February 1994, in Largo, Pinellas, Florida, United States, at the age of 85.