Estelle Gresse spent most of her life in Cape Town, where she worked for 5 years in an administrative position for the Department of Education. After this period, she turned into a full-time housewife and mother, raising her 2 daughters. At the beginning of 1994 she took up a Teachers Assistant position at a Pre-Primary School for 26 years. Her Husband passed away in 2011. She and Mr. Gresse got married in September 2018. They moved to Drakondale School of the Arts where she was appointed as Hostel Manager since June 2020.