Her mother was a seamstress and domestic worker. His mother was a seamstress and waitress. His father worked as a welder and his mother as seamstress. He was born to a housepainter father and a seamstress mother. There she worked as a nanny, a waitress, and a seamstress while learning filmmaking. Her mother works as a seamstress in London. She was a seamstress and costume maker. Steve's mother, Elfriede, worked as a seamstress. Luther worked as a shipping clerk and Maud as a seamstress. She worked as a seamstress in a department store. She worked as a seamstress and a cook for white families. She spent her youth in London working as a seamstress. Stemmer was the daughter of a seamstress. Nonetheless, she had to work as a seamstress. She next moved to Trinidad, Colorado, where she made her living as a seamstress.