Ida Badger was born to Edward Badger and Etta McGown in Parry Sound, Ontario in 1919. She was the first born of 6 children in the family.

On June 20, 1936 she married a local farmer by the name of Fred West in Parry Sound.

They had six children in Parry Sound before moving in 1948 to the rural area of Charlton in Northern Ontario near Englehart.

There two more children were born. They settled on a farm where they raised their 8 children. Fred died in 1974. Ida moved into a small house in Englehart where she lived many years.

Years later their country road was named after the family.

Ida remarried on November 4, 1992 to a widower named John Linton. He was the father of Mary-Anne's husband. John died in 2012, leaving Ida a widow again. She died on September 30, 2013 in Englehart. She was buried next to Fred West in the Englehart Public Cemetery.