When Bertha Leona Estes was born on 26 February 1905, in Chouteau, Mayes, Oklahoma, United States, her father, John Alexander Estes, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Sophrina Fisher, was 21. She married Archibald Murdock on 14 June 1924, in Parsons, Labette, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 15 November 1971, in Duluth, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 66.