When Edith May Van Hellen was born on 13 May 1926, in Polson, Lake, Montana, United States, her father, George Henry Van Hellen, was 47 and her mother, Mabel May Griffin, was 21. She married Emmett John Cramer on 19 July 1944, in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States. She died on 4 March 2015, in Arcadia, DeSoto, Florida, United States, at the age of 88.