When Marjorie May Hermanson was born on 8 May 1925, in London, Freeborn, Minnesota, United States, her father, Gilbert Melvin Hermanson, was 35 and her mother, Mary Pearl Allen, was 35. She married Arthur Raymond Graves on 14 February 2002, in Austin, Mower, Minnesota, United States. She lived in Lyle, Mower, Minnesota, United States in 1930. She died on 29 December 2009, in Faribault, Rice, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Lyle, Mower, Minnesota, United States.