When Betty Jeanne Harrell was born on 31 March 1929, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States, her father, Rudolph Thomas Harrell, was 33 and her mother, Kilda Malcolm, was 35. She married Turner Clarence Trippe Jr on 29 April 1950, in District of Columbia, United States. She lived in Silver Spring, Montgomery, Maryland, United States in 1979. She died on 19 January 2014, in Potomac, Montgomery, Maryland, United States, at the age of 84.