Her father, Baron Gustav von Rummel, was an actor and an officer in the German army while her mother was descended from a wealthy publishing family.
On their 1914 vacation to Alberta, the family was unable to return to Germany due to the sudden outbreak of World War I.
[3][4] Aside from a brief return to Germany in 1919 to care for her dying grandmother, Rummel spent the majority of her life after the war in Canada.
[1] Rummel is credited with inspiring summer heli accessed hiking at Canadian Mountain Holidays Cariboo.
[6] In 1970, due to worsening arthritis Rummel sold Sunburst Lake Camp, retired, and moved to Canmore, Alberta.
[16] In 2019, Rummel's story was adapted into a one-woman show, "A Woman in Wildflowers", written and performed by Shirley Truscott.