Ida Elizabeth Alice Tivey was born on 16 October 1910 in Nottingham, the daughter of cycle maker and patented inventor Louis Albert Tivey and his wife Elizabeth Mary Done.
Ida married Ralph C. Dugdale, eleven years her junior, in 1945 in Nottingham. The couple were married for fifty years and had no children.
Ida spend her final years in Braybrook care home, Park Avenue, Burton Joyce, Nottingham, where she died in 1995 aged 85. Ralph died in 1997 aged 76.