When Inez Marie West was born on 9 March 1917, in Richmond, Virginia, United States, her father, Thomas Harden Benton West, was 32 and her mother, Pearlie Martin, was 30. She married William Douglas Fendley on 5 March 1938. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Beaver Dam Township, Cumberland, North Carolina, United States in 1920 and Brittons Neck, Marion, South Carolina, United States in 1930. She died on 24 July 2003, at the age of 86.