When Matilda Rhoda Aahart was born on 17 June 1906, in Hubbard, Minnesota, United States, her father, Jacob Lang, was 54 and her mother, Jennie L Wheeler, was 53. She married Adolph E. Elsner on 26 February 1921, in Bonners Ferry, Boundary, Idaho, United States. She lived in Seattle, King, Washington, United States in 1935 and Orillia, King, Washington, United States in 1940. She died on 15 December 1993, in Issaquah, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Washington Memorial Park, SeaTac, King, Washington, United States.