Details on the life of Cecelia Vareschner are not many, but a rough outline is visible. She was born in Germany, she married G. Morris Levy, and they made their life in Norfolk, Virginia, where Morris was—according to an obituary—a leading businessman and influential citizen. They had a daughter, Flora Jacobs, with whom Cecelia lived, in Richmond, following the death of her husband, and five sons, among the Raphael cofounder of the Virginia department store Jacobs & Levy.