When her mother was seven months pregnant, she left the Alaska Territory and moved to Tacoma, Washington, where Berg was born on November 28, 1925.
During her time in Juneau, she was a member of the local chapter of the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls.
She joined in December 1938 and received the organization's highest honor, the Grand Cross of Color, in 1943.
She would alternate between work and academic pursuits until she finished her studies at Yale Law School in January 1959.
[1] Berg married the widowed Arthur Schaible on Christmas Day, 1958 at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City.