Elizabeth (Libbie) Laas was born April 16, 1868 in Klaber, Meckelnburg-Schwerin, Germany. She was the second child of Johann and Dorothea (Roggelin) Laas.

Libbie was listed as a "houseworker" on the 1930 census for Toledo, Ohio. She was an attendee at the early Heiden Family Reunions.

She died on February 12, 1948 at the age of 78 in Toledo.