When Matilda Aaker was born on 27 September 1903, in Luverne, Rock, Minnesota, United States, her father, Theodore I Aaker, was 33 and her mother, Johanna Skrondakl, was 29. She married Earl Vincent Sauter on 12 October 1924. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Beaver Creek, Rock, Minnesota, United States in 1910 and Cooperstown, Griggs, North Dakota, United States in 1920. She died on 22 August 1987, in Valley City, Barnes, North Dakota, United States, at the age of 83.