When Evelyn Martha Agnes Riege was born on 16 August 1921, in Portland, Dodge, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Ernest Herman Riege, was 29 and her mother, Maria Helena Elsa Hahn, was 26. She married Wilbert William Paul Baumann on 27 April 1941, in Saint Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church, Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States. She lived in Waterloo, Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States in 1930 and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 2006. She died on 12 July 2009, in Pewaukee, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Washington Cemetery, Dodge, Wisconsin, United States.