[1] She grew up in Colorado and later moved to Manhattan in New York City to pursue a singing career.

[1] Her operatic repertory included Madame Butterfly and Carmen, in New York City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Berlin.

While in New York, she gave solo recitals accompanied by pianist Alice Marion Shaw.

[4] She married English actor and singer Wilfred Douthitt, also known as Louis Graveure, a baritone, around 1916.

In 1931 she married Major Charles Henry Strong, a businessman from Cleveland, Ohio, and settled there with him.