She was the daughter of Edgar Lovejoy Porter and Lily Field Brewer. She graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington in 1927 and spent her career as a teacher. She married John Langdon Ward on June 24, 1933 in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts. Cremated, Ashes scattered, Specifically: Ashes were scattered in the Mississippi River near her birth place of Hastings, Minnesota. (findagrave.com)