Her mother, Jeanne Victoria Adrienne Anne (Clerec), was born in Brittany, France, and her father, John Paul Labofish, was an attorney, born in Pennsylvania. Her paternal grandparents, Charles Shashan Labofish and Rose Ethel Lamlec, were emigrants from the Russian Empire. Her maternal grandparents, Louis Victor Clerec and Marie Pauline Rodrigue, were French, of Breton ancestry.