When Gerda Anna Kristina Svensson was born on 28 March 1910, in Gårdveda, Kalmar, Sweden, her father, Josua Linof Sigfrid Svensson, was 35 and her mother, Sara Anna Charlotta Ekelund, was 29. She married Karl Alfred Emanuel Johnsson on 2 May 1930. She died on 26 January 1994, in Fröböke, Halland, Sweden, at the age of 83.