Margaret Fern (Getty) Hall was born on November 27, 1910  in Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan as the daughter of George Frances and Olive (Merryfield) Getty.

On December 6, 1928 she married a man named Hall and they had one daughter, Patricia (Hall) Slater.

She married Michael G. Trifoonove on May 28, 1949 and they were divorced on January 14, 1952

Margaret died in 2003 at the age of 93.