When Asher was six years old, General Frederick Funston was holding her in his arms as he collapsed and died from a heart attack in the lobby of The St. Anthony Hotel[1] in San Antonio, Texas.

[4][5] Asher co-wrote the episode "Robert E. Lee" for the Famous Children of History radio program.

In 1934 she was listed in Elizabeth Dilling's self-published The red network; a "who's who" and handbook of radicalism for patriots.

[12] Asher published one novel, Family Sins (Pinnacle Books, New York 1983), the story of an American widow who travels to the Orient in pursuit of a Korean orphan and ends up in the arms of a handsome but married Japanese doctor.

[16] Asher worked as a coordinator in the International Student Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.