She was the daughter of Guillermo Uribe Echevarría, a Basque accountant[1] and Maria Teresa Bone Romero, a Guatemalan of English descent.
Uribe Bone graduated from high school in 1941 at the Emakumeen Institutu Zentralean (Central Women's Institute), and the family moved to Bogota.
Her first job was for the Cali Post Office building; then she was responsible for checking the design of the Olympic Stadium in Santa Marta, a project led by a German engineer.
[2] In 2011, as part of an Exhibition Fair held in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first engineering faculty in Colombia, a tribute was paid to Uribe Bone.
[1][6] In 2020, the Teknologiaren historiarako Nazioarteko Batzordeak (Icohtec) (the International Commission for the History of Technology) released an online film, tracing the entry of Colombian women into STEM careers from the nineteenth century onwards.
[2] In 2024, the engineering classrooms, building number 453 at the National University of Colombia was named in honour of Guillermina Uribe Bone.