Street was the daughter of Oscar Francis Kumpula, an American who had been born in Finland, and his wife Mary Johanna Bylkas, of Wakefield, Michigan.
[6] On a sea voyage from New York to England in May 1945, Street was travelling from Wakefield, Michigan, and gave her occupation as a lecturer for the London Committee for the education of the British armed services.
She travelled by sea to London on the ship American Farmer, arriving on 24 January, and on 19 February 1938, at St Katherine's church, Merstham, Surrey, married John Hugh Street.
[8] In September 1948, Alicia Street returned to Britain from New York on the Cunard Line's MV Britannic, travelling with her two-year-old daughter Leola, and stated their address as 103 St Mary Abbots Court, West Kensington, London W14, and her occupation as "Editor".
[12] Alicia Street survived him for nearly forty years, dying at Coombe Dingle in Gloucestershire, England, in April 2016, aged 104.