Corenna E. Dougherty was born in New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia, to Ezra John and Margaret L. (Kerns) Dougherty on September 24, 1908.

Ezra Dougherty, 51, was working as a foreman in a lumber company when he was run over by a car and was killed in 1926. Margaret died in 1954.

In 1940, Corenna Dougherty, 31, was working as a Nurse-Secretary in a doctor's office in Pittsburgh.

Corenna died in San Bernadino, California on August 31, 2001 at the age of almost 93 years.