When Ruth M. Baxter was born on 11 February 1903, in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Robert Kell Baxter, was 39 and her mother, Margaret M Robertson, was 35. She married Harold Murdock Beers from 1926 to 1928, in Massachusetts, United States. She died on 9 April 1994, in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.