 Sour graduated from Ruston High School and Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in Lincoln Parish.She was a member of Noel Memorial United Methodist Church in Shreveport.Sour had two sons, Edwin William Sour (born 1950) and wife, Dora McMath Sour, and John Michael Sour (born 1953) and wife, Terri Brooks Sour; a daughter, Margaret Stacy Sour, all of Shreveport; four sisters, Ethel Lockard (1918-2000), Louise Pasquier (c. 1922-2017), Elizabeth Ann Harris McBride (1927-2013), and Delores Jaudon; a brother, John Robert Sour, and three grandchildren.