Laduntan Oyekanmi pursued her primary education at Sacred Heart Convent School in Ibadan from 1945 to 1950.

She then attended Saint Agnes Teachers Training College in Maryland, Lagos, for her tertiary education from 1951 to 1954.

Subsequently, she traveled to Scotland and undertook preliminary nursing training at Victoria General Hospital in Kirkcaldy from 1958 to 1961.

On 12 August 1961,she married Prince Diti Oyekanmi of the royal Matanmi Family of Osogbo, Osun State.

[3] Prince Oyekanmi, her husband, was a commissioner in the old Western Region in the 1970s and served in the cabinet of former Military Governor of Oyo State, Major General David M.