Elaine Anderson was born in Border, Wyoming November 6, 1922 the daughter of Harold Tennyson and Sarah Buehler Anderson.  She graduated from Montpelier High School in 1941.  She married Leon Abbott Shook December 31, 1941 in Riverside, California.  She died October 25, 1980 in Salt Lake City and was buried in Grantsville City Cemetery in Grantsville, Utah.