When Ruth Lucille Thomas was born on 24 May 1898, in Ridgeway, Iowa, Wisconsin, United States, her father, George E Thomas, was 30 and her mother, Mamie E. Collins, was 19. She married Donald Dewey Hawley on 30 March 1921, in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 24 November 1954, in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States.