A member of the Jack Cole Dancers with Nita Bieber, and Gloria Patrice.
She and her husband, Harold adopted two children: son, Jonathan (born July 7, 1959), and daughter, Gretchen (born August 6, 1961).
Sometimes billed as Ruth Godfrey White.
She died at Northridge Hospital of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Her body was cremated in Pasadena, CA., after services at Bastian and Perott Mortuary.