When Lavinia Lower was born on 19 April 1894, her father, Charles Lower, was 28 and her mother, Florence Kinnear, was 22. She married William Newman Searle Kempster on 2 May 1917, in Tickera, South Australia, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 27 June 1971, at the age of 77.