When Russell Howard Kilfoyle was born on 14 October 1900, in Montague, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, his father, Thomas Kilfoyle, was 52 and his mother, Elizabeth Irwin, was 40. He married Linda M. Whitmore on 9 August 1938. He lived in Lanark, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died on 15 March 1973, in Carleton Place, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 72, and was buried in Smiths Falls, Lanark, Ontario, Canada.