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.
Zella Florence Covalt of Dodge City, Kansas United States was born on February 28, 1868 in Losantville, IN, and died at age 95 years old on November 24, 1963 in Dodge City, KS.