When Donald Charles Kelley was born on 6 March 1925, in Albion, Cassia, Idaho, United States, his father, Sebastian Cabot Kelley, was 54 and his mother, Agnes Ann Bradbury, was 43. He married Patty Lee Updike on 1 September 1943. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Albion Election Precinct, Cassia, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 27 June 2007, in Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Albion, Cassia, Idaho, United States.