She began photographic work at the Arthur Ringer Studio in Paola, Kansas about 1915; and met her future husband, Frank S. Knoblock while working there. She "unofficially" attended the Southern School of Photography in McMinnville, Tennessee during 1917, while her husband was a student there. She later went on to darkroom work in the Photo Arts Studio in Washington, DC, which her husband co-owned with photographer Grover Plew.
In Columbia Gardens Cemetery.