[2] Serving in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II then enrolling to study law at the Middle Temple Inns of Court.
[2] She married Chief David Ojo Abiodun Oguntoye, the first Ijesha lawyer, whom she met during the War while he was also serving in the Royal Air Force, on 16 November 1946.
[3] In 1960, Oguntoye renounced her British citizenship in order to serve in the Nigerian judiciary.
[2] In 1978, she was named an Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic by Head of State Olusegun Obasanjo.
[2] She was honoured with the title of the Iyalode of the town of Imesi-ile in the Nigerian chieftaincy system.