When Ruby R Atkins was born on 14 May 1904, in Oregon, United States, her father, Charles F Atkins, was 40 and her mother, Mary Ella Rankin, was 36. She married James Madison Mullinix on 5 July 1927, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Torrance, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1935 and San Antonio Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 11 September 1989, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 85.