She and her brother were educated at Paisley Grammar School and the University of Glasgow, where she studied medicine.
[2] She met and married Swedish chemist Gosta Lundholm,[3] whose family had been in Scotland for many years, and had British citizenship.
[2] Her father-in-law Carl Olof Lundholm had been commissioned by Alfred Nobel to manage his dynamite factory in Ardeer, Scotland.
[2] They returned to Scotland from South Africa as her husband Gosta was working in a factory at Westquarter making fulminate of mercury.
Her eldest son, Eric was a Royal Engineer in the Middle East during World War II.
[4] Her husband Gotta died in 1969 and she moved in with her son Alan and his wife in Torrance, Glasgow.