Born in Troon, Camborne on 20 August 1928, she has been described as 'a thorough-going Cornish Methodist'. She studied Geography and Music at Southlands College and was influenced by the preaching of Leslie Weatherhead. She taught at Rochester, Southampton and Falmouth. When Camborne Circuit Youth Secretary she met the Rev. R. Hubert Luke (1908-1987; e.m. 1933), later Chairman of the Cornwall District, and became his second wife in 1960. She became a local preacher in 1977. She did voluntary work with the Cornwall County Association for the Blind, is a local preacher and in 1975 became chairperson of the connexional Women's Fellowship Committee. She was elected Vice-President of the Conference in 1982. She died at Gwithian on 9 August 2014.