She lost her left leg from the knee down and had to spend a long time in a military hospital where other patients taught her chess.
After leaving the hospital, Vuorenpää finished school in Lammi and then moved to Helsinki where she worked as a postal clerk.
She won the Finnish Women's Chess Championship sixteen times: 1957−1973, 1975−1976, 1981, 1986.
In 1975, in Karlovy Vary she participated in FIDE Women's World Chess Championship Zonal Tournament.
Landry spent her last years at Kauniala Military Injury Hospital in Kauniainen, Finland, where she died.