When Joan Elinore Trowbridge was born on 1 May 1929, in Kendallville, Wayne Township, Noble, Indiana, United States, her father, Joseph E. Trowbridge, was 23 and her mother, Ruth Irene Becker, was 21. She married Norman Harris Crothers on 13 October 1948, in Kendallville, Wayne Township, Noble, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Wayne Township, Noble, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died on 12 December 2009, in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Kendallville, Wayne Township, Noble, Indiana, United States.