When Elsie Lorine Collins was born on 31 May 1927, in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States, her father, Noah Washington Collins, was 38 and her mother, Pearlie Mae Hiatt, was 31. She married Jack Burkhart on 29 April 1950, in High Point, Guilford, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Surry, North Carolina, United States in 1935 and Dobson Township, Surry, North Carolina, United States in 1940. She died on 8 February 2006, in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States.