She was born in Fonda, Iowa to Canadian parents, Methodist clergyman Frank B. Stafford and Loretta A. Stafford, and died on February 6, 2008 in Pawling, New York, aged 101.
Babe Ruth | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Stafford | Ruth Richard | Ruth Ann Minner | Jo Stafford | William Stafford | Ruth Buzzi | Ruth Brown | Clive Stafford Smith | Ruth | Linda Ruth Williams | Ruth Cracknell | Ruth Westheimer | Ruth Watson | Ruth St. Denis | Ruth Rendell | Ruth Minnikin | Ruth Fuchs | Max Stafford-Clark | Marquis de St Ruth | Charles Willson Peale | Ruth Teitelbaum | Ruth Padel | Ruth Kelly | Ruth Gordon | Rembrandt Peale | Matthew Stafford | William Stafford (poet) | William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford |
He also received the Norman Vincent and Ruth Stafford Peale Humanitarian Award, the Horatio Alger Award, the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership, and the Boy Scouts of America Silver Buffalo Award.