Alda Victoria McCoy Honig was born on April 14, 1885, in Lake (Richland), Indiana, the daughter of Dr. Leonidas H. McCoy and Emmaline Hatfield McCoy. She began studying piano in childhood, and at age 13 her father took her to DePauw University as a music student. At 16, she and a girl friend from Evansville went to London to meet Mme. Marguerite Liszewska, assistant to Leschetizky, one of the most famous piano teachers of his era. She also studied in Chicago, Illinois, under Emil Liebling, a pupil of Franz Liszt, and then in Vienna with Leschetizky for two years before returning home because of her father's illness. She served as Professor of Pianoforte in the School of Music at DePauw University and married George Honig in Chicago in 1917. Presented in recital at the Waldorf Hotel in New York by the Director of the New York Philharmonic Choral Society, she later moved to Evansville and opened a studio. There she was active in the Evansville Musicians Club, founded the Leschetzky Piano Club, chaired many committees for civic music work, and belonged to DAR, the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs, and Alpha Chi Omega. She also wrote poetry, published a book of verse in London, collaborated with her husband on his plaques, was listed in Who's Who in Evansville, History of Alpha Chi Omega Fraternity, and Principal Women of America, London, and died in Evansville, Indiana, on January 28, 1955.