When Maria Romero was born on 10 August 1900, in Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, Brazil, her father, Pedro Romero Sanches, was 44 and her mother, Antônia Parra, was 40. She married Benedito Padilha Escobar about 1920, in Miraí, Minas Gerais, Brazil. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 6 December 1987, in Barra de São João, Casimiro de Abreu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the age of 87.