Lois Elaine (Clark) Cheever was born on October 28, 1924 in Tecumseh, Lenawee County, Michigan as the daughter of Pauline (Adams) and Edwing Clark.

She married Russell M. Cheever and had three children:

  1. Deborah Lee Cheever
  2. Lee Russell Cheever
  3. Michael Alan Cheever

Lois died on November 16, 2007 in Tecumseh at the age of 93 and is buried in Brookside Cemetery in Tecumseh.