When Betty Christine Anderson was born on 24 December 1926, in Batesville, Independence, Arkansas, United States, her father, James Bascom Anderson, was 30 and her mother, Edith Bell Jeraldine Beel, was 23. She married Alving Columbus Perrin on 27 November 1944, in Batesville, Independence, Arkansas, United States. She died on 25 May 1996, in Jonesboro, Craighead, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Jonesboro, Craighead, Arkansas, United States.