Eleanor Lucile Dyer was born May 29, 1927, the daughter of Herrick H. and Winifred Irene (Konker) Dyer. She had an older brother, Herrick Harrell Dyer Jr., born just fourteen months before her. The family lived on Torrington Road in Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland. Her mother's parents, Harry (a traveling salesman who sold fishing tackle) and Lillie Konker were living with them in 1930. Her father, Herrick Sr., was a vice-president of the Dyer Company- a business that manufactured "sugar machinery." His grandfather, E.H. (Ebenezer Herrick) Dyer, had been one of the original titans of the sugar beet industry in California and the western United States.
Her father, Herrick Sr., died in 1962 and was buried in the family plot in Lakeview Cemetery in Cleveland, marked by a large stone proclaiming, "DYER."
Her mother, W. Irene Dyer, died in 1978, and like her children Eleanor Lucile and Herrick Jr., was then living in Jamaica, Queens, New York. She was returned to Cleveland and buried at her husband's side.
The sister and brother both passed away at Mary Immaculate Hosptial in Queens- Eleanor Lucile Dyer on February 22, 2002; and Herrick H. Dyer Jr. just three months later on May 27, 2002. They are both buried on Hart Island.
Sources: U.S. Social Security Death Index; U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007; 1930 U.S. Federal Census; www.findagrave; The Builders of a Great City: San Francisco Representative Men Vol. 1, pages 151-153.