Lue Ella Stevens, daughter of Howard E. (1899-1956) and Helen Bertha (Fischer) (1908-1988) Stevens, was born 10 January 1927, Michigan.  After Howard's death Mrs. Stevens remarried a man named Hammermeister.

Lue Ella graduated in 1945 from Okemos High School.  She married 26 November 1947 Richard S. Diehl (1925-2012) in Mason, Ingham County, Michigan.  The couple divorced in 1952.  Lue Ella married Charles W. Smallenberger (1925-2003) 22 October 1954, Angola, Steuben County, Indiana.  The couple divorced.  Lue Ella married John Irving Knutson 28 June 1963, Clark County, Nevada.

John, born 13 May 1915, died 23 April 1988, Clark County.  Lue Ella died 9 July 1995, Clark County.  John and Lue Ella were interred Palm Desert Memorial, Las Vegas, Clark County.  The Knutson tombstone was engraved, "Lue E."