As Hilda Doris Crisp, she was born at 34 Ingate Road, Beccles, Suffolk on 8 November 1908, daughter of James Crisp, a house decorator, and his wife Laura née Howard, who married at Saxmundham, Suffolk in 1889. Hilda married at Wangford, Suffolk in 1935, William George Gorrod (21 November 1901-1 April 1972), a grocer's manager. In 1939, they were living at 35 Denmark Road, Beccles, Suffolk. A member and exhibitor at Beccles Society of Artists and in 1972 living at 97 Grove Road, Beccles. Hilda died at Beccles on 29 March 2000.