When Gladys Marie McCann was born on 3 October 1910, in Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States, her father, Edward McCann, was 25 and her mother, Beetha Ethel Swisher, was 20. She married Marion James Kerns on 10 July 1934, in Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States. She lived in Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1935 and Muskegon, Muskegon, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died on 17 December 1987, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States.