When Vera Betrice Tindall was born on 19 February 1926, in Atherton, Queensland, Australia, her father, John Herbert Tindall, was 44 and her mother, Sarah Jane Little, was 37. She married Noel Darcy Slade on 7 July 1945, in Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia. She died on 3 April 1978, in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, at the age of 52, and was buried in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.