When Violet Lizebth Woodruff was born on 11 June 1887, in Shawnigan Lake, Cowichan Valley, British Columbia, Canada, her father, George Manhattan Woodruff, was 36 and her mother, Mary Ann Turpin, was 35. She married William Joseph Dixon on 2 July 1908, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1901. She died on 31 October 1969, in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 82.