Frances Jane Stanley Trembath was born in Still Pond, Maryland, on 25 September 1915, the first child of Harry C. and Ruth Mae (Happel) Stanley. From October 1935 until July 1936 she attended the Waynesboro Business College in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, finishing her studies with a Stenographer Diploma. From 1935 until 1936 she worked in a bank and as a secretary, before enrolling in the University of Maryland School of Nursing in 1938, graduating in 1941.

After graduating nursing school, she worked at the University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Waynesboro Hospital in Waynesboro, Maryland, as a General Staff Nurse. One 24 August 1942, the Army assigned her to Active Service from the Reserves, and stationed her at the base hospital in Camp Rucker, Alabama.

Trembath was permanently assigned to the base hospital in Camp Rucker until her discharge on 14 November 1945. However, she had a few temporary assignments while serving in the Army Nurse Corps: from 02 January to 21 March of 1943 she was temporarily assigned to Camp Silbert, Alabama, and in January-March 1943 she was stationed as a Charge Nurse at Oliver General Hospital in Augusta, Georgia. Her excellent service was rewarded in 8 July 1944 when Trembath was temporarily promoted to Chief Nurse with the rank of First Lieutenant, and her last assignment began in March 1945 as an Instructor at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. She died in Wilmington, Delaware on 06 September 2006.