[2][3] His father, James Kibbee, worked for newspapers in Las Cruces and El Paso.

The Kibbee brothers operated a stock theater company in Wichita Falls, Texas, after which Milton and his family moved to Chicago, where they acted in stock productions and their children were educated.

Kibbee and his wife also operated a stock company in Wheeling, West Virginia.

His remains are interred at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California.

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