When Mary Alice Garrison was born on 7 October 1911, in Adair, Kentucky, United States, her father, Robert Granville Garrison, was 22 and her mother, Maude Alice Whitlock, was 17. She had at least 1 son with Harold Frederick Peters. She lived in Mason City, Mason, Illinois, United States in 1920 and Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1930. She died on 2 July 2003, in Surprise, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 91.