When Karyl Yvonne Kintner was born on 30 October 1935, in South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States, her father, Dr. John Dana Kinter, was 26 and her mother, Mary Irene Robbins, was 27. She died on 15 January 1995, in Mercy San Juan Hospital, Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 59.