Her parents were Marilyn (née McKeever) and Joseph Albert Oeming.
[3][4] Her dissertation was titled, An Islamic Cosmography : The Illustrations of the Sarre Qazwīnī (1978).
[3][6] In 1972, she married Heshmatollah "Heshmat" Badiee from Iran in a Baháʼí marriage ceremony.
While teaching Islamic art history at Western Maryland College in 1980 she received a note on her desk that read "death to Iran",[9] during the Iran hostage crisis.
[3][11] A study abroad scholarship was named in her memory at Western Maryland College, seven months after her death.