After graduating from the Department of Education at Yenching University on the mainland, she set up a foundling nursery in Lanchow in Kansu Province in western China during the war of resistance against Japan.
石奶奶畢業於大陸燕京大學的教育系。她在抗日期間，就曾基於對兒童的喜愛，和她所信仰的基督的博愛精神，在甘肅蘭州辦了一所育嬰堂，收容長江以北的戰時孤兒。