When Lucretia Evelyn Henderson was born on 10 September 1906, in Chouteau, Montana, United States, her father, Stewart Franklin Ethelbert Henderson, was 21 and her mother, Jeanette Evelyn Williams, was 20. She married Thomas Patrick McCreery on 28 September 1922, in Clark, Washington, United States. She died on 6 May 1974, in Washington, Oregon, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.