When Ruby Lee Bodenheimer was born on 14 August 1913, in Davidson, North Carolina, United States, her father, Andrew Marion Bodenheimer, was 33 and her mother, Hattie Bodenhamer, was 36. She lived in Abbotts Creek, Davidson, North Carolina, United States in 1920. She died on 17 February 2002, in High Point, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Abbotts Creek Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Wallburg, Davidson, North Carolina, United States.