Quartey-Papafio was educated at the CMS Grammar School and Fourah Bay College in Freetown, Sierra Leone, before travelling to study in Britain.

[12] His son, Percy, trained as a doctor but was unable to practise due to failing eyesight caused by cataracts.

Dr Ruby directed her efforts and passion into being an economist and an accomplished Headmistress at Accra Girls High School.

In addition to ghost-writing and being of great assistance to the late Kwame Nkrumah and his cohorts/co-nationalists actualization of Ghana's independence, Mercy's pacesetting genes also resulted in her being appointed as the first Ghanaian headmistress at Cape Coast Government Girls School.

After achieving highly accredited fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, her only child Nana Ffoulkes Crabbe-Johnson continued the distinctions of leadership by being the first Ghanaian Professor and Head of Department in Anaesthesiology (Lagos University Teaching Hospital)in a foreign medical institution and female President of the West African College of Surgeons.