Lena was born in 1956. Lena's father was Teck Tiong Koh and her mother is Geok Lan Ng. Her paternal grandparents were Koh Kim Han and Siew Lian Chia. She had two brothers and a sister, named Rupert, Gilbert and Lydia. She was the second oldest of the four children. She died by commiting suicide at the age of 46 on July 14th, 2002.