When Mildred Augusta Yates was born on 14 July 1912, in Chickamauga, Walker, Georgia, United States, her father, Arthur Edward Yates, was 37 and her mother, Susan Ermina Warrenfells, was 27. She married Robert Joseph Dugan Finfrock on 13 February 1937, in Hamilton, Tennessee, United States. She lived in District 1501, Walker, Georgia, United States in 1930. She died on 22 February 2002, in Winter Park, Orange, Florida, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Winter Park, Orange, Florida, United States.