When Donnis Elaine Abrams was born on 1 February 1927, in Sikes, Winn, Louisiana, United States, her father, John B Abrams, was 40 and her mother, Etta R Crain, was 35. She married Carl Burwell Humphries in 1947, in Rapides, Louisiana, United States. She lived in Winn, Louisiana, United States in 1930. She died on 26 July 2003, in Alexandria, Rapides, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Pineville, Rapides, Louisiana, United States.