When Renata Ilsa Rose Borman was born on 31 October 1913, in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, her father, Carl Otto Borman, was 47 and her mother, Fredericka Emelia Beckman, was 39. She married William Alfred Erick Beckman on 18 February 1943, in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 13 April 1986, in Caldwell, Canyon, Idaho, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Caldwell, Canyon, Idaho, United States.