When Ione Higbee was born on 9 February 1919, in Cedar City, Iron, Utah, United States, her father, Myron Franklin Higbee, was 29 and her mother, Florence Spilsbury, was 27. She married Grant Hubbard Redford on 12 April 1939, in Zion, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Rural, South Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1935 and Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States in 1940. She died on 20 January 1997, in Amity, Yamhill, Oregon, United States, at the age of 77.