When Catherine A. Theriault was born on 5 February 1901, in Victoria, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Dennis J. Theriault, was 28 and her mother, Susan Jane Daisley, was 25. She married Austin Dixon in 1927, in Dingwall, Victoria, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Victoria, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1901. She died on 8 February 1972, in Dartmouth, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 71.