Peggy Sue Gerron was born on 15 June 1940 in Olton, Texas, USA. She was married to Lynn Bryant Rackham and Jerry Allison. She died on 1 October 2018 in Lubbock, Texas, USA.
She and Allison divorced in 1964, and she moved to California to attend Pasadena Junior College. She remarried and had two children, helped her husband set up a plumbing business, and said she was the first licensed woman plumber in California.