In 1951 Mahala Dickerson married Frank R. Beckwith, an Indianapolis attorney, and relocated with her three sons to Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1958, after her marriage to Beckwith ended in divorce, Dickerson moved to Alaska.
Mahala Dickerson married Frank R. Beckwith, an Indianapolis lawyer, in 1951 and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, with their three children. After the dissolution of her marriage to Beckwith in 1958, she relocated to Alaska.