Daisy grew-up with 6 sisters and 2 brothers at her family home known as "Runnymede" in Oakwood, a suburb of Dayton . As a child, the famous African American poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar performed poetry recitations at Runnymede along with the many other artists from the Dayton area. She and her sisters all attended boarding school at St. Margarets/Westover in Connecticut, with Daisy graduating in 1907.
Daisy was involved with many charitable causes in the Dayton area but perhaps most prominently was a founder of the Dayton Humane Society. She was also president of the Women's Aeronautical Association of America and a founding member of the Oakwood Efficiency League, a society dedicated to community betterment.
She became a young widow with a 10 and 13 year old in 1933 with the premature death of her husband, George in 1933 at the age of 49. There was ample family in the area to compensate however as her mother, sister Elsie and brother Bud were all within a short walk of her home on Runnymede Road in Oakwood.
Daisy was an avid outdoorsperson. She would don a canvas skirt and boots to venture out into the woods. Her family had a cabin north of Sault Ste Marie in Ontario Canada. It was reached by the Algoma Central Railroad; the train stopped at mile marker 41 and Daisy with family in toe portaged a canoe several miles to a lake where the cabin could be reached reports Daisy's nephew George Houk.
In 1949 Daisy married Duddleston Brown who was a Treasurer at Irvin Jewell & Vinson Co. maker of paints and varnishes. Dud moved into Daisy's beloved home on Runnymede Rd and remained there several years after Daisy's death.
In addition to offspring listed below Daisy had a son George Shaw Greene Jr. (Born July 12, 1920; died Philadelphia area) and the 1940 census record lists George W. Priest (born 1922) as an adopted son.
Contemporaries of Daisy report that she was a sober and serious person.