When Elsie Maud Woods was born in 1912, in Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia, her father, William George King Woods, was 25 and her mother, Margaret Carling Radford, was 22. She married William Henry Schiltz in 1933, in Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died in 1974, in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 62, and was buried in Ballarat New Cemetery, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.