When Maria Van Overbergh was born on 25 March 1898, in Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium, her father, Emile, Julien Van Overbergh, was 42 and her mother, Marguerite Ganzer, was 33. She married Gabriel Charles Bossaert on 20 July 1921. She died on 10 July 1992, in Duinbergen, Knokke-Heist, West Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 94.