Mary Anne was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Guthrie and Oklahoma City, OK. Her first marriage was to John A. Hannon with which she had a son in 1961. In 1972, she married Wayne N. Wallace and lived in Irving, TX; McLean, VA; St. Louis, MO; and Angel Fire, NM. She was trained as a Dental Hygienist at Temple University where her dorm-mates helped baby-sit the son she had at age 18. She was a step-mother to two sons and a daughter, and was neighborhood matriarch in Warr Acres, OK were she passed.