When Ada Blanche Olson was born on 23 July 1905, in Litchfield, Sherman, Nebraska, United States, her father, Johannes Olsen, was 42 and her mother, Caroline Lilly, was 37. She married Nevins Perle Bearbower on 2 January 1928, in Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Scott Township, Sherman, Nebraska, United States for about 10 years and Alliance, Box Butte, Nebraska, United States in 1935. She died on 21 August 1986, in Scottsbluff, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in West Lawn Cemetery, Gering, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, United States.