Grace Bremer Lester was born in 1923 and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. She graduated from Macalester College, canoed the Boundary Waters, and trained as a nurse. In 1947 she married Jack Lester and they moved to Fargo, North Dakota, where they raised three children. Grace worked for twenty years with the Camp Fire Girls and was active in the Dakota Hospital Auxiliary and the Gethsemane Cathedral Women's Guild. She currently lives in Naples, Florida.