In the 1925 New York State census, when at age 22 she is living with her parents and siblings in Rockville Centre, Nassau County, NY. She was baptised at the Anderson Memorial Church in New York City on June 2, 1905. In 1921 she appears in the yearbook of Westport High School in Kansas City, Missouri, where her family had moved sometime between the 1910 and 1920 federal censuses. In 1923 she appears in the yearbook of the Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City, Missouri.