When Mable Irene Van Matre was born on 16 August 1909, in Oxford, Furnas, Nebraska, United States, her father, Francis Marion Van Matre Jr, was 30 and her mother, Myrtle Joy Davenport, was 19. She married Howard Franklin McDaniel on 20 July 1927. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Wood Lake, Cherry, Nebraska, United States in 1930 and Kearney City, Kearney, Nebraska, United States in 1940. She died on 18 September 1989, in Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, Canyon, Idaho, United States.