For years was a western favorite at nostalgia conventions and
fairground events.
Surviving a near-fatal car accident in later years, she subsequently
took up nursing.
Severely injured in a 1950 car accident when she was rammed by a logging truck. It took some time before she could walk again.
According to author Laura Wagner, the teenager auditioned and was strongly considered for the title role in Paramount's Alice in Wonderland (1933), but allegedly her father nixed the idea as he felt a movie career was not a dignified business for her to be in.
Became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Had one son, Eric, from her first marriage to rancher Fred Bohling and a daughter Marina from her second marriage to Nick Ostreyko.