When Frances Gillette was born on 2 July 1907, in Bannock, Idaho, United States, her father, Samuel Chappell Gillett, was 38 and her mother, Frances C Cornia, was 23. She married Earl Alden Williams on 21 August 1936, in Declo, Cassia, Idaho, United States. She lived in Rural, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States in 1935 and Jerome, Jerome, Idaho, United States in 1940. She died on 24 October 1993, in Declo, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States.