When Florence Fern Beck was born on 25 March 1908, in Missouri, United States, her father, Martin Green Beck, was 45 and her mother, Martha Isabella Brownfield, was 42. She married Edmund Earl Holmes on 29 June 1926, in Payette, Payette, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Twin Falls, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Emmett, Gem, Idaho, United States in 1930. She died on 5 December 1997, in Idaho, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Payette, Idaho, United States.