When Mabel May Kilfoyle was born on 17 May 1891, in Montague, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, her father, Thomas Kilfoyle, was 43 and her mother, Elizabeth Irwin, was 31. She married Elmer David Ruttle on 16 September 1913, in Montague, Lanark, Ontario, Canada. She lived in Ontario, Canada in 1891 and Lanark, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 15 October 1978, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 87, and was buried in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.