When Helen Warfield was born on 27 September 1895, in Newcastle, Webster, Iowa, United States, her father, Roy Merris Warfield, was 23 and her mother, Clara Maude Kearns, was 22. She married Joseph Clarence Wenger on 28 September 1919, in Woodbury, Iowa, United States. She lived in Ames, Story, Iowa, United States in 1920 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. She died on 11 June 1975, at the age of 79.