When Nellie 'Helen' Beatrice Aelick was born on 14 February 1919, in Sandfield, Central Manitoulin, Manitoulin, Ontario, Canada, her father, Ira Adam Aelick, was 48 and her mother, Agnes Coventry, was 38. She married James 'Jim' Henry Yates on 16 April 1950, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She died on 1 February 1991, in Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 71.