Meta Baalke was born 1 May 1876 at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, daughter of Johann H. Baalke and Maria Dorothea Blum.

Meta worked at the Park Hotel in Sheboygan, and later ran a rooming house in Milwaukee.

She married Herbert Otis, and they had one son:

1) Leo Otis.

Meta Otis, née Baalke, died 8 May 1934 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was buried Thursday, 10 May 1934.