When Robert Preston Snuggs was born on 9 May 1910, in Chariton, Lucas, Iowa, United States, his father, George Louis Snuggs, was 30 and his mother, Louisa Fletcher, was 27. He married Arda Anna Hutchins on 8 January 1937. He lived in Jackson Township, Warren, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Election Precinct 63, El Paso, Colorado, United States in 1930. He died on 19 July 1998, in Colorado, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States.