When Alieen Lena Williams was born on 16 December 1930, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, her father, Arthur John Williams, was 41 and her mother, Dorothy Emma Kitcher, was 29. She married Ernest Bryan Allen in 1954, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She died in May 2009, in her hometown, at the age of 78, and was buried in Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia.