When Carmen Dalia del Rosario Alvarado Segura was born on 7 July 1928, in Grecia, Alajuela, Costa Rica, her father, José Alvarado Castro, was 29 and her mother, Lucía María Guadalupe Segura Álvarez, was 26. She married Victor Manuel Rivera Salazar on 5 January 1952, in San Rafael, Alajuela, Alajuela, Costa Rica. She died on 20 September 1998, in her hometown, at the age of 70.