When Florence Catherine Dix was born on 9 July 1896, in Troutdale, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, her father, Commodore Palmer "Pam" Dix, was 35 and her mother, Dora Anna Messinger, was 31. She married Thomas Loren Skelly on 10 November 1912, in Butte, California, United States. She lived in Monticello, Cowlitz, Washington, United States in 1900 and Chico Judicial Township, Butte, California, United States in 1940. She died on 13 September 1975, in Chico, Butte, California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Chico, Butte, California, United States.