When Russell Charles Woodley was born on 13 July 1896, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, his father, George Thomas Woodley, was 24 and his mother, Ada Mary Inman, was 21. He married Lillian Esther Pearce on 26 June 1922, in Belleville, Hastings, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Hochelaga, Quebec, Canada in 1901 and Hastings, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 3 August 1986, in Belleville, Hastings, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 90, and was buried in Belleville, Hastings, Ontario, Canada.