When Vera Rozella Lusty was born on 16 November 1912, in Evanston, Uinta, Wyoming, United States, her father, Harold Callis Lusty, was 21 and her mother, Mable Martha Wallwork, was 19. She married Dean Van Houten on 13 February 1929, in Rich, Utah, United States. She lived in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1935. She died in May 1983, in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 70.