When Mary Veronica Walters was born on 26 March 1899, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, her father, Thomas James Walters, was 32 and her mother, Susannah, was 30. She married John Daniel Kennedy on 25 August 1923, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 14 April 1948, in her hometown, at the age of 49.