Met husband/prop master Paul Blaisdell while both were attending New England
School of Art and Design, marrying shortly after they graduated. They
moved out West in the early 1950s. She worked alongside her husband
throughout his career creating monster masks, costumes and special
effects for lowbudget sci-fi and horror films.
After her husband's death of cancer in 1983, she grew extremely
reclusive. They had no children. She was found dead in her Topanga home
on December 2, 2006, by a neighbor. The coroner placed the date of her
death as November 30, 2006.