Moss was born in Raleigh, North Carolina to James McKee, the executive vice president of the North Carolina Products Corporation, and Lucile Aycock McKee, president of the Junior League of Raleigh.
[1] She earned a master's degree in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[1] In November 1970, her engagement to Robert Lancaster Williams Moss of Baltimore was announced in The New York Times.
[2] They moved into her childhood home, 1000 Harvey St. in the Hayes Barton Historic District of Raleigh, where they raised their two daughters, Dorothy and Lucile.
[3] In 1972, she served as matron of honor at the society wedding of her sister, Lucile Best McKee to William Clarkson IV.