When Jennie Merle Butler was born on 30 September 1892, in Fayette, Fayette, Iowa, United States, her father, Frank Butler, was 36 and her mother, Eva Loraine Cornish, was 24. She married Theodore Opsata on 12 June 1913, in Rock, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Vienna Township, Rock, Minnesota, United States in 1920 and Magnolia, Rock, Minnesota, United States in 1930. She died on 12 October 1981, in Luverne, Rock, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 89.
