When Nora G De Raedt was born on 29 December 1915, in Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Daniel M J De Raedt, was 27 and her mother, Clementine Ursula Van Damme, was 25. She married Samuel Deane Downing on 22 October 1946, in Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, United States. She died on 13 January 1994, in Hamilton, Ravalli, Montana, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Hamilton, Ravalli, Montana, United States.