When Kaiwaka Hori was born on 10 September 1925, in Herekino, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand, her father, Te Tatau Pura Hori, was 24 and her mother, Maki Ngawhika or Perene, was 20. She married Anthony Newman on 10 October 1957, in Auckland, North Island, New Zealand. She died in June 2003, in Auckland, North Island, New Zealand, at the age of 77, and was buried in Auckland, North Island, New Zealand.