When Gertrude Barbara Glubka was born on 3 December 1911, in Little Falls, Morrison, Minnesota, United States, her father, Louis Bernard Glubka, was 43 and her mother, Martha Stoltman, was 25. She married Ben J Ringwelski on 17 April 1934, in Little Falls, Morrison, Minnesota, United States. She lived in Pike Creek Township, Morrison, Minnesota, United States for about 10 years and South International Falls, Koochiching, Minnesota, United States in 1940. She died on 15 November 1994, in International Falls, Koochiching, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in International Falls, Koochiching, Minnesota, United States.