When Alda Ailene Alderman was born on 25 March 1920, in Independence, Independence Township, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Albert Frank Alderman, was 31 and her mother, Ethel May Clinger, was 29. She married John Thomas McCartney on 24 April 1943, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. She lived in Robinson, Robinson Township, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. She died on 21 April 1982, in Clinton, Findlay Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Aliquippa, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States.