When Richard Kepple Toole was born on 20 June 1908, in Grant, Kentucky, United States, his father, William Lawrence Toole, was 25 and his mother, Lula Emma Sebree, was 22. He lived in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1930 and Ohio, United States in 1982. He died on 13 May 1982, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Hill Crest Cemetery, Dry Ridge, Grant, Kentucky, United States.