She met her future husband, Andrés Rodríguez, a Paraguayan Army officer, when she was 18-years old. She accompanied him during the Paraguayan Civil War of 1947. The couple married in 1948 and had three daughters - Dolly, Mirtha, and Martha. One of their daughters, Martha, later married Alfredo Stroessner Mora, the son of Paraguayan dictator, President Alfredo Stroessner.