Born Constance Lorraine Gibbs, on February 11, 1913, in Ashland City, Tennessee, to Arthur Thomas Gibbs and Bessie Serena Jackson, Bannister moved to New York to study photography, studying first at the New York School of Applied Design and the School of Modern Photography[1] then enrolling at the New York Institute for Photography.

[2] Her first assignment, in 1937, was shooting Palm Beach society photographs for the Associated Press.

[6] Beginning in 1946, she wrote a comic strip, "Baby Banters," syndicated twice weekly to approximately 50 newspapers.

1938); later to Air Force Captain Charles G. Fredericks[1] and lastly to Joseph Hatcher (m.

[7] Bannister died on August 17, 2005, in Laurel Hollow in Nassau County, New York, where she lived.