Ralph W. Jenkins was born September 11, 1900 to Edwin Grant Jenkins and Gertrude Melissa Schreckler in Ray, Missouri. He was one of five children born to this union. His siblings were Leone Margarette, Aurile Edwin, Helen Gertrude and Dale Arthur.
On November 18, 1929, Ralph married Esther Josephine Johnson in Los Angeles, California.
In 1957, he supposedly married a woman name Betty, but no records have been found to support this.
Ralph died in Phoenix, Arizona in May 1970.
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