Lia was born in Yugoslavia on the 14th July 1931. She lived in a small village and went to school when she was seven. In 1944, her family moved from Yugoslavia to Hungary because of the war. She wanted to go to university, but there was no money,so she started working in a sugar factory at seventeen. She had sugar for lunch and dinner every day for three years. She got married at twenty-five. She didn't have any children, nut children always liked her. In 1969, she moved to Lake Balaton in Hungary and made a lot of money selling ice cream with her sister. She bought a house with the money, and now she rents rooms there.