Lillian Ruth Bienz was born in Bern, Idaho March 24, 1905. She was the daughter of Rudolph Bienz and Anna Barbara Meiers. She graduated from Montpelier High School in 1924. She married Marriner Monroe Perkins June 5, 1926 and they had seven children. She died June 1, 1992 in Burley, Idaho and was buried in the Hazleton Cemetery in Hazelton, Idaho..