She moved to Maine as a young girl.

She attended local schools, and later worked at Union Station where she met her husband to be, William B. Whiting.

They had a home built on Cobb Street in Rosemont, Portland during the height of the great depression, and both worked at whatever jobs were available in order to keep their home.

They raised three sons there and even managed to buy a small cottage at Campbell Shores, Little Sebago Lake in North Windham.