She stood as a Town Councillor for Bury St Edmunds from 1957 to 1962, where she died in 1983. Lofts wed her second husband, Robert Jorisch, a technical consultant to the British Sugar Corporation at the town's sugar beet factory, in 1949. She married Geoffrey Lofts in 1931 with whom she had one son, Clive. In 1925 she attained a teaching diploma from Norwich Training College. Norah Ethel Robinson was born in Shipdham, Norfolk to Isaac Robinson and Ethel Garner, and grew up in Bury St Edmunds where she was educated at Guildhall Feoffment Girls School and the County Grammar School for Girls in the town. Northgate House, Bury St Edmunds, home to Lofts from 1955 until her death in 1983
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