She was one of the few women editors in this field from the 1940s through the 1970s and was responsible for editing dozens of films with non-theatrical releases.
She directed, produced, and edited a number of short documentaries sponsored during and after the war effort and in involving Britain's colonies.
[1] She came to the US after World War II and settled in Georgia, where she worked as a staff editor at the Center for Communicable Disease Control.
She later relocated to the Washington, D.C. area and performed editing work under the company name Cummins-Betts located in Glen Echo, Maryland.
[2] The collaborations with Stoney included a number of films on medical and public health topics, urbanization, social issues, the military, and religion.