Signe Kirstine Hoejer was born in Naesborg and spent her childhood on a farm near Aggersund near Limfjorden with her parents and brother. Sadly, her mother died when she was just eight years old. As a teenager, she helped her father with work at the farm. Around 1925, at the age of 20, she went to Kolding in order to search for job. After her father's death in 1948, she opened her own store in Silkeborg, which she has been running for many years, until aged 75. Thereafter, she worked as an accountant for another ten years.