When Mary Bernadette Downey was born on 21 March 1905, in Hibbert, Perth, Ontario, Canada, her father, John Downey, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth Cronan, was 31. She married Charles Henry Noxell on 18 December 1927, in London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Perth, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 13 December 1977, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 72, and was buried in London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada.