When Alice Arnold was born on 24 June 1907, in Allegany, New York, United States, her father, Frank C Arnold, was 31 and her mother, Henrietta Arnold, was 28. She married Lowell Gilbert on 30 August 1930, in New York, United States. She lived in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States in 1935 and Tonawanda, Erie, New York, United States in 1940. She died on 12 September 2002, in La Habra, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 95.