- Is the mother-in-law of actor and musician, Jimmy Byron.
- Was the female singer in the Canadian folk group, The Travellers, from 1954-1969.
- Is of Russian, French-Canadian, and Native decent. Her father was a Russian from Chernivtsi, Ukraine and her mother was a French-Canadian-Native from Temiskaming, ON. Neither of her parents could speak English or each others respected languages when they met, and required the help of translators. They met in a lumber camp in the Ottawa Valley, where her father was working in a mill, and her mother was working as a waitress.
- While with The Travellers, she became friends with the folk group, The Tarriers and their singer, Alan Arkin. When Arkin told her he was leaving folk to pursue a career in acting, she earnestly exclaimed, "No, Alan! And give up folk?!" Arkin, not only went on to be a founding member of Chicago's Second City troupe, but also an award-winning actor.
- Both she and her husband, Phil Taylor, were very close friends of Canadian poet Milton Acorn. He would often stay at their home.
- Through her marriage to Phil Taylor, she is the cousin-in-law of Major League baseball pitcher, Vic Lombardi.
- Her brother in law, Herbert J. Taylor, was a State Assemblyman, and then a State Senator of New Mexico during the 1960s.
- Her father in law, Herbert S. Taylor, was made an honorary colonel of New Mexico in 1964.
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