He was born on 15 August 1910 69 at the Lone Jack Location of Missabe Mountain Township, Minnesota. . He had severe mitral insufficiency, aortic stenosis and congestive heart failure, renal failure and cardiac arrest. He had coronary bypass surgery and a stroke about six years before he died which left him blind in one eye.69 He was never in the United States Military. He farmed in the Town of Hendron, Route 1, Willard, Wisconsin 54493.

She was 17 years old when she married on 4 May 1939. She was a widow, but still living in the farmhouse in 1990.69 Her nickname is "Billie”. She was very healthy and still living alone in her own farm home on 18 February 2010. On 19 April 2015 she has dementia and lives in a nursing home in Neillsville.2513