[1] Her parents separated when she was young and her mother moved her to Los Angeles, California.

After the death of her father, Gerber's impoverished mother gave guardianship of her daughter to an attorney.

After Booth's death, she married a fourth and final time, to contractor William Munchoff; he died in 1960.

[1][5] On January 2, 1974, Gerber died of a cerebral thrombosis in Palm Springs, California.

She was buried in a pauper's grave in Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.