When Wilma Caroline Fillerup was born on 8 March 1900, in Colonia Díaz, Chihuahua, Mexico, her father, Charles Richard Fillerup, was 26 and her mother, Moneta Johnson, was 18. She married Frederick Andrew Turley on 1 June 1920, in Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Standard Justice Precinct 3, Navajo, Arizona, United States in 1930 and Supervisorial District 3, Navajo, Arizona, United States in 1940. She died on 14 August 1982, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in R V Mike Ramsay Memorial Cemetery, Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona, United States.