When Szűcs Mária was born on 13 April 1909, in Aranyos-Meggyes, Szatmár, Hungary, her father, Szűcs János, was 39 and her mother, Kozma Julianna, was 33. She married Dunai Antal on 27 November 1926, in Békéssámson, Békés, Hungary. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died in 2002, in Békéssámson, Békés, Hungary, at the age of 93.