He had two younger sisters, Alice Miriam and Gertrude Jean, and an older brother, Carl Albin.
Myra Giese was involved with the Association for the Study of Childhood in Wellington.
[6] At the 1986 local elections she stood as a Labour Party candidate for the Wellington City Council in the Lambton ward.
[7] At the 1992 election she contested Lambton ward again, having by now switched her allegiance from Labour to the Green Party.
[9] Giese, who had remained mentally sharp and fiercely independent, was found dead on 8 March 2010, having died of a heart attack around two weeks earlier.