Madeline Frances Dorna was born on March 14, 1913 in New York City to Nicholas Dorna of Alsace-Lorraine and Marie Feger Dorna of Alsace-Lorraine. She was the second oldest of four children...Marie, Albert (died at birth), and Peter Dorna.
She lived in Manhattan in 1915 and 1920. In 1930, her older sister Marie died when Madeline was only 17.
In 1940, she was 37 and still living with her mother and her brother in New York, and was a Milliner working in Ladies Hats.
She died at the Greenpark Care Center in 1989, and was buried on Hart Island in 1990.