She is one of two children. Her sister Gaynell Theresa Foret, an elementary school teacher, died at age 24 of a brain tumor in her third year of teaching first grade.
Her father died at age 90 and her mother is alive and well at age 96.
Married for 50 years, she and her husband “Teddy” have three children (Gaynell, Ted, and Pauline) and one granddaughter Dominique Cecilia Lococo.
They have lived on a sugarcane farm for those 50 years and Teddy is a real cowboy! Yes, he is a cattle rancher