When Ross Richard "Dick" Wilbur was born on 13 July 1926, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, LeRoy Ernest Wilbur, was 44 and his mother, Anna Kirstine Hansine Jespersen, was 38. He married Madge Nell Richards on 11 April 1951, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Salt Lake City Ward 5, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 10 December 2007, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.