When Azzie Claudine Childress was born on 6 November 1919, in Neboville, Gibson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Johnnie Claude Childress, was 22 and her mother, Lena Marie Neil, was 17. She married Delbert Bishop on 24 December 1938, in Caruthersville, Pemiscot, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 8 May 2009, in Caruthersville, Pemiscot, Missouri, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Caruthersville, Pemiscot, Missouri, United States.