When E Leona Andrews was born on 15 January 1912, in Strickler, Washington, Arkansas, United States, her father, Robert Emmett Andrews, was 56 and her mother, Mary Frances Farmer, was 45. She married Jesse Dale Rowley on 16 January 1935, in Hemphill, Texas, United States. She lived in Hemphill, Texas, United States in 1935 and Justice Precinct 3, Hemphill, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 21 February 1981, in Gainesville, Cooke, Texas, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Edith Ford Memorial Cemeteries, Canadian, Hemphill, Texas, United States.