When Blanche Lucia Amerhandt was born in March 1886, in Fargo, Cass, North Dakota, United States, her father, Henry Amerhandt, was 30 and her mother, Cora Nunamaker, was 24. She married James William Parry on 27 June 1911, in Cass, North Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Birmingham, Oakland, Michigan, United States in 1930 and Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died on 29 September 1950, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Florida, Henry, Ohio, United States.