When Maria da Conceição da Costa was born on 10 August 1918, in Limoeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil, her father, Joaquim Paula Roberto de Freitas, was 29 and her mother, Raimunda Nonata da Costa, was 25. She married Francisco Torres de Moura on 22 February 1939. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 3 July 2003, in her hometown, at the age of 84.