When Lydia Cecila Larson was born on 13 January 1904, in Norman Township, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota, United States, her father, Ole Larson Leite, was 30 and her mother, Ida Annette Sorbo, was 25. She married John George Pries about 1924. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Yellow Medicine, Minnesota, United States in 1935 and Manfred Township, Lac qui Parle, Minnesota, United States in 1940. She died on 5 October 2000, in Watertown, Carver, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.