When Alice Lovejoy was born on 6 January 1900, in Sargent, Custer, Nebraska, United States, her father, John Hale Lovejoy, was 65 and her mother, Agnes Jane McAllister, was 33. She married Lucien Ellsworth Potter Jr on 3 September 1925. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Hastings, Adams, Nebraska, United States in 1935 and Yreka Judicial Township, Siskiyou, California, United States in 1940. She died on 25 July 1974, in Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Twin Oaks Memorial Gardens, Albany, Linn, Oregon, United States.