Born at Captains Flat in New South Wales to schoolteacher John Filshie and his wife Elizabeth Seaman, she was educated at the local schools, eventually becoming a physical culturist and organiser.

On 11 December 1915 in Sydney she married Thomas Mitchell, a stock and station agent, with whom she had one son.

She married her second husband, fellow physical culturist Clarence Weber, on 7 March 1919; they had one son and two daughters.

[1] Following her husband's death in 1930, she experimented with several occupations, including as a lecturer on health and diet and a Country Party organiser.

[1] Weber contested Box Hill unsuccessfully in 1945 and held various positions subsequently; in 1943 she had been president of the Victorian section of Women for Canberra.