When Robert Rulon Ibey was born on 22 December 1900, in Cardston, Alberta, Canada, his father, Robert Ibey, was 26 and his mother, Mary Lula Woolf, was 23. He married Margaret Amelia McKibben on 12 June 1926. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Weiser, Washington, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Oakland, Alameda, California, United States in 1930. He died on 16 November 1955, in Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 54.