When Nanna Signe Bønnelycke was born on 30 October 1894, in Horsens, Vor Frelsers, Skanderborg, Denmark, her father, Fængselsbetjent Peter Rudolf Marcellus Bønnelycke, was 29 and her mother, Pauline Mette Kirstine Andreassen, was 31. She married Aage Kjeldsen Pedersen in May 1919, in Denmark. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She died on 29 March 1986, at the age of 91.