When Bernice Evangaline Bohnstedt was born on 29 November 1904, in Naperville, DuPage, Illinois, United States, her father, Isaac Carl Sylvester Bohnstedt, was 30 and her mother, Dora Ellen Matter, was 27. She married Lester Alvin Witte on 10 March 1927, in Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Mount Morris, Ogle, Illinois, United States in 1930 and Wheatland Township, Will, Illinois, United States for about 5 years. She died on 10 November 2002, in Stoughton, Dane, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Cottage Grove, Dane, Wisconsin, United States.