Ivey Oscar Drewry Jr. was born on December 17, 1915 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama United States to Ivey Oscar Drewry Sr. and Virginia Lee (Tumlin) Drewry, and had a sister Eleanor Virginia Drewry. Ivey Drewry died at age 97 years old on December 3, 2013 in Huntsville, Madison County, and was buried in December 2013 at Maple Hill Cemetery 202 Maple Hill St SE, in Huntsville.