When Leora Ruth Powers was born on 7 April 1901, in Inyo, California, United States, her father, Tom Powers, was 22 and her mother, Ivy Lent, was 22. She had at least 1 son with Harry Keyes Clarke. She lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Judicial Township 1, Inyo, California, United States in 1940. She died on 5 August 1994, in Bishop, Inyo, California, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Bishop, Inyo, California, United States.