- Born 22 April 1922, Charlotte NC
- Died 14 January 2001, Boone NC
- AB Agnes Scott College (Decatur GA) 1942
- MA University of North Carolina 1944
- PhD August 1953, University of North Carolina
- Adviser: E.T. Browne
- Dissertation: The reduction of a matrix to a rational canonical form
- Primary employer: Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (Greensboro NC)