When Ruby Fann was born on 30 January 1918, in Powder Springs, Cobb, Georgia, United States, her father, Lawson Price Fann, was 34 and her mother, Lucinda Adeline Chastain, was 32. She lived in District 942, Paulding, Georgia, United States in 1930 and Norwood, Stanly, North Carolina, United States in 1994. She died on 22 March 1994, in Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Norwood, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States.