When Helon Marie Lehew was born on 2 December 1924, in Texas, United States, her father, Claude Milton Lehew, was 26 and her mother, Alice Wooley, was 21. She married A.J. Rains on 19 February 1945, in Dawson, Texas, United States. She lived in Lynn, Texas, United States in 1935 and Justice Precinct 3, Lynn, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 1 June 2005, in Lamesa, Dawson, Texas, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in O'Donnell, Dawson, Texas, United States.