Mary E. Lambing was born in June 1893 in Pennsylvania. She is found with her family in the 1900 Federal Census of Hovey, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Her parents, Henry J. Lambing, a day laborer born in Pennsylvania, and his wife, Mary E., born in California, had the following children: Lawrence L., 18, Ruth A., 15, Sarah L., 12, Charles W., 10, Mary E., 6, and Henry J., 1.

At the time of the 1920 census, Mary E. Lambing, 26, born in Pennsylvania (mother born in Calfornia), was a student nurse at St. Francis Hospital.

On January 23, 1923, Mary E. Lambing married Dr. John F. Noble, a pathologist at St. Francis. His mother's obituary (Mrs. Robert L. Noble), from 1926, states that she moved from Connecticut to Pittsburgh "about 35 years ago," an indication that Dr. Noble was probably born in Pittsburgh. In Minnesota, he was a hospital pathologist and then served as County Coroner.

FATHER'S OBITUARY: Pittsburgh Daily Post, June 26, 1927 - HENRY J. LAMBING - At Venice, Pa., on Saturday, June 25, 1927 at 1:30 p.m., Henry J. lambing, beloved husband of Mary E. Lambing (nee Fryer), in his 70th year. - Funeral from his late residence at Venice, Pa., on Monday, June 27, at 2 p.m., Eastern standard time. [Buried at Venice Cemetery.]

The mother, Mary E. Fryer Lambing, died in 1940. Mary Eleanor Lambing Noble died September 14, 1960, and her husband, Dr. John F. Noble died in February 1963.