Margaret Lavina (Smith) Layle was born February 12, 1912 as the daughter of Anna Levina (Anderson) and Russell Smith.

On January 27, 1934, she married Theodore William Layle and they had four children:

  1. Russell Franklin Layle

  2. James Richard Layle

  3. Claudia Helen Layle

  4. Barbara Meredith Layle