When Ruby Ruth Sims was born on 6 January 1909, in Royse City, Rockwall, Texas, United States, her father, Henry Wyndell Sims, was 32 and her mother, Mary Mollie B. Lee Sorrells, was 35. She married Robert E. Thompson on 6 December 1936. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 17 October 2007, in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States, at the age of 98.