When Florence Adeline Sonter Scott was born on 13 April 1920, in Kendall, New South Wales, Australia, her father, William Scott, was 51 and her mother, Florence Adeline Chantler Sonter, was 39. She married Jacob Thomas Pinkstone on 21 August 1937, in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 20 August 2009, in Toormina, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 89, and was buried in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.