When Verda Matilda Gindelsperger was born on 26 November 1902, in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Noah Gindelsperger, was 32 and her mother, Sadie E. Geisel, was 28. She married Thomas John Espey on 18 May 1922, in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States. She died on 20 March 1977, in her hometown, at the age of 74, and was buried in Grandview Cemetery, Southmont, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States.