When Mona Elizabeth Crumley was born on 7 July 1917, in Shawnee Township, Fountain, Indiana, United States, her father, Emory Monroe Crumley, was 25 and her mother, Bertha Elizabeth Goff, was 26. She lived in Adams Township, Parke, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 27 January 2008, in Yuba City, Sutter, California, United States, at the age of 90.