When Mary Theresa Solko was born on 20 June 1898, in Herndon, Rawlins, Kansas, United States, her father, Frank Solko, was 22 and her mother, Anna Barenberg, was 24. She married Joseph Alphonse Pitner on 4 January 1921. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Herl Township, Rawlins, Kansas, United States in 1940. She died on 19 June 1986, in Trenton, Hitchcock, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Saint Marys Cemetery, Herndon, Rawlins, Kansas, United States.