When Maria Del Transito Lopez Rivera was born on 17 September 1927, in Cartago, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, her father, Jose Belisario López Torres, was 39 and her mother, Patricia del Carmen Rivera Bueno, was 37. She married Manuel Salvador Moncada Montes on 8 September 1950, in Cartago, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 6 October 1986, in her hometown, at the age of 59, and was buried in Cartago, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.