When Lillian LeNore Henderson was born on 1 July 1903, in Wahoo, Saunders, Nebraska, United States, her father, John Clarence Henderson, was 34 and her mother, Lillie Ellen Stevens, was 29. She married Sidney Arnold VanDyke on 29 May 1922, in Broken Bow, Custer, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Custer, Nebraska, United States in 1935 and Election Precinct 28 Rickreall, Polk, Oregon, United States in 1940. She died on 22 December 1996, in Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in City View Cemetery, Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States.