István was born in 1905.1 István's father was István Daraghy and his mother was Berta Zsombori. His paternal grandparents were Béla Daraghy and Etelka Dobolyi. He had three sisters named Etelka, Erzsébet and Irma. He was the youngest of the four children. He had a half-brother named Ferenc. He died at the age of 40 in 1945.1