Her mother, known as "Mamee", was a well-known social figure in Rocky Mount in her later years.
[9] She edited two books by Kuni Sasaki [ja], including Reluctant Bachelor (1962).
[4][5][11] Bellamy also acted through much of her life, performing in school as a girl, and active on stage and backstage with the Morningside Players in New York, the Civic Theater in Washington, D.C., and the Tokyo Amateur Dramatic Club.
[3] Ruth Bellamy married, and had a son, David Owen Brownwood, born in Los Angeles in 1935.
She died at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, in 1969, aged 62 years.