When Else Anna Elisabeth Høegh was born on 24 August 1922, in Kolding, Vejle, Denmark, her father, Søren Peder Høegh, was 44 and her mother, Betty Amalia Anderberg, was 40. She married Svend Aage Sørensen on 24 August 1945. She lived in Kolding, Brejning, Ringkøbing, Denmark in 1930. She died on 23 December 2003, in Køge, Roskilde, Denmark, at the age of 81.