When Lillie Edna White was born on 6 June 1895, in Saint John, Whitman, Washington, United States, her father, Edward Charles White, was 25 and her mother, Nellie Jeanette Thompson, was 18. She married Delbert Franklin Hamilton on 21 October 1916, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Ewan, Whitman, Washington, United States in 1930 and Election Precinct 49 Ewan, Whitman, Washington, United States in 1940. She died on 1 January 1977, in Saint John, Whitman, Washington, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Saint John Cemetery, Saint John, Whitman, Washington, United States.