When Olive Tooker was born on 9 August 1883, in Willow Township, McPherson, South Dakota, United States, her father, James Watson Tooker, was 40 and her mother, Josephine Munson, was 32. She married Michael Emmett McKenna on 24 December 1909, in Aberdeen, Brown, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Edgeley, LaMoure, North Dakota, United States for about 30 years. She died on 7 August 1961, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Edgeley, LaMoure, North Dakota, United States.