When Ruth A Addy was born on 8 June 1916, in Cumberland, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States, her father, Charles Isaac Nailor Addy, was 39 and her mother, Alice Mageline Stonebraker, was 34. She married Rosval Wilson May on 10 September 1938, in Daggett, Utah, United States. She lived in Lincoln, Wyoming, United States in 1930. She died on 11 January 1988, in Contra Costa, California, United States, at the age of 71.