Minnie Ivy Selby was born on Friday 23 November 1906.

Minnie married Horace Lavender in 1936 in Smethwick.

She had the following children from her marriage to Horace Lavender:

- Angela J. Lavender

born in 1943 in Birmingham, Warwickshire.

Minnie died when she was 87 years old, in 1994 in Birmingham.