When Daisy Ellen Adams was born on 22 May 1916, in Nambour, Queensland, Australia, her father, William Henry Huxtable Adams, was 34 and her mother, Frances Ellen Reynolds, was 29. She married Edwin McQuarie Coit on 8 April 1944, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She died on 15 May 2013, at the age of 96, and was buried in Hemmant Cemetery and Crematorium, Hemmant, Queensland, Australia.