The daughter of first-generation Americans Emil and Emma Wehmeier, Hilda was an honour graduate of the College of Music in Cincinnati.

Her father Emil (b. 1863) worked as a harness maker, and married Emma Pfleiderer (b. 1868), a Kentuckian, in 1894. Both were the children of German immigrants. Her father was the proprietor of a cafe around 1910, before returning to his original profession, and Hilda may have got her start performing for the customers.

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  Her first recordings for Vocalstyle appear to have been around October 1916 as a 21 year old. Three of her recordings are listed in the bulletin of that month - 'Bachelor Days', 'I've Saved All My Love For You', and 'On the Old Dominion Line'

  A December 1916 Vocalstyle brochure states she is "one of Cincinnati's most prominent piano instructors" and the March 1917 'Music Trades Review' credits her as "taking the center of the stage in the Vocalstyle bulletin for March, as the interpreter par excellence of Vocalstyle words-and-music rolls."

  Around 1920 she married Raymond Pendery Myers, an oil merchant, and son Robert Jackson Myers, was born in 1923.

  Following her marriage, the Vocalstyle rolls begin to credit her as "Hilda Myers" which is retained until her last rolls around 1926.

  Some of her rolls rank amongst the hottest blues and jazz performances cut by a female, and display an impressive mastery of these genres for a classically trained pianist. The Vocalstyle roll catalogue of June 1924 noted "She is a concert pianist of note and her repertoire includes all the great piano classics. She has played for Vocalstyle for many years and has devoted her talent to the playing of popular music in an artistic manner. Her wonderful training and technical equipment makes her Vocalstyle recordings very enjoyable to real music lovers."

Vocalstyle ceased production of piano rolls in January 1927 in the wake of falling prices for music rolls and increased competition. Hilda was there until the end, two of her last recordings being featured in the December 1926 bulletin - "I'll Fly To Hawaii" and "Hello Bluebird".

In later years the Myers family lived at 9 West Hill Lane, Wyoming, Ohio. In a newspaper interview c. 1974, Hilda recalled the Vocalstyle days, estimating she made 400-600 rolls in total and saying the company would send her sheet music which she would 'work up', and notify them when she was ready to make a recording. Each hammer of the recording piano was equipped with a small rubber hose, which ran into the next room and made marks on the large paper roll. When the recording was finished, 'a battery of girls in the cutting room would hand cut the roll or perforate it at each mark. That became the master roll'.  She also mentioned she didn't like some of the titles selected for her to record, but "I'd do the best I could with everything I'd play". The roll played back for her at the time of the interview was #12784, You May Be Fast, But Your Mamma's Gonna Slow You Down", released in April 1924. She failed to recognise the tune at first, but, as 'the song unreeled on a paper roll in a player piano, its perforations hitting the keys exactly as Hilda Myers had recorded it in Cincinnati 50 years before, she shook her head, shut her eyes as if trying" to erase the recording from memory and finally smiled. "It's the title," sighed Mrs. Myers, of 119 Forest Ave., Wyoming. "I never did like that title." The interview also revealed she had never owned a player piano, and her favourite roll she had recorded was Mandalay.

Her husband Raymond died at their residence on 18th February 1962, aged 70. Hilda herself died on 28th March 1985 in Indianapolis, Indiana and was buried on 30th March next to her husband in Oak Hill Cemetery, Cincinnati.