She had two living half-siblings by Ben-Yehuda's first wife (and Hemda's sister) Devora, including Itamar Ben-Avi.
In 1921, she married Max Wittmann, a German who became the first non-Jewish language activist in Palestine to found a Hebrew-only family with a native speaker of Hebrew.
Both Dola and her husband are buried in the Alliance Church International Cemetery in the German Colony neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Though it is common for modern linguists to have access to the last native speakers of dying languages, the opposite is rather exceptional.
[3] Dola was a major contributor to the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive recording and wrote as well as performed the collection's introductory track.