 Her uncle, Carl Henry Clerk (1895 -1982) was an editor, agricultural educator, school administrator, Presbyterian minister and journalist who was elected the fourth Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast from 1950 to 1954 as well as the Editor of the Christian Messenger, the news bulletin of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana from 1960 to 1963.An uncle, Theodore S. Clerk (1909 -1965) was the first Ghanaian architect of the Gold Coast who planned and developed the port city of Tema P. M. Clerk's aunts were Jane E. Clerk (1904–1999), a Gold Coast pioneering woman education administrator and Matilda J.Clerk (1916 -1984), the second Ghanaian woman to become a physician.