Lanore Wilda Covalt was born on September 17, 1897 in Kansas City, Kansas to parents Robert Elmer "Elmer" Covalt (1871-1949) and Zella Florence Golliher (1868-1963). She had siblings Netta, Susie, Myrtle, Edna, Charley, and Theodore Covalt. They grew up in Elmerdaro, Lyon, Kansas, USA.
On July 3, 1923 she married Raymond Jackson Broom (1885–1964) in Denver, CO.