In an oral history interview in 2012, she noted that she had had no interest in art until meeting Jerome Tiger, whom she married when she was eighteen.
[3] They had three children together, Dana, Lisa, and Christopher, who was two weeks old when Jerome was killed at the age of twenty-six in a gun accident.
She also continued coursework at Bacone College and Northeastern State University, graduating from the latter with a bachelor's degree in American Studies.
[3] After her husband's death, Tiger and her cousin, Molly Babcock, began collaborating with Bob Lengacher at Tulsa Litho to create limited-edition prints of Jerome's work.
Originating as a T-shirt business to sell the designs of Johnny Tiger, Jerome's brother, it later became even more of a family affair.