When Ella Nora Van Meter was born on 10 April 1919, in Missouri, United States, her father, John Robert Vanmeter, was 39 and her mother, Nora Mae Samuels, was 35. She lived in Highland Township, Lewis, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 21 July 1963, in Ewing, Lewis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Ewing Memorial Cemetery, Ewing, Lewis, Missouri, United States.