Her grandfather, Archdeacon William Gunther, was rector of St John's, Parramatta.
[1] Her mother Jane Gunther née Thomson is descended from Mary (Molly) Reibey, whose image now appears on the Australian twenty dollar note.
She was one of the Australian nurses taken prisoner by the Japanese in Sumatra during World War II.
She wrote about her three and a half years incarceration and survival in Portrait of a Nurse (published in 2001).
[2] She married Major George Colin Darling (NX101315 2/5 Infantry Battalion), a manager with the Port Kembla steelworks in 1957 and a widower with four children in 1949.