She married fellow comics creator, and frequent collaborator, John Ostrander the same year.

[2][8] Her husband, John Ostrander, also worked on various comics such as Star Wars, Batman, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Punisher, and X-Men.

[11] Yale was heavily involved with the Friends of Lulu, an organization promoting women in comics that operated from 1994 to 2011.

[9] Yale wrote an ongoing column in the Comics Buyer's Guide, in which she detailed her battle against breast cancer.

The cancer made it very difficult for her to write, and the origin story for Oracle included in The Batman Chronicles #5 (1996) was her last project.