When Ora Ada Bateman was born on 14 January 1928, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, her father, Arthur Patrick Bateman, was 39 and her mother, Phoebe Ann Lemmon, was 22. She married John Hillard (Red) Lytsell Jr on 9 February 1945, in Clark, Washington, United States. She lived in Portland City Election Precinct 147, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1940. She died on 25 February 2009, in Scappoose, Columbia, Oregon, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Skyline Memorial Gardens, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.