When Buddy Roy Robnett was born on 8 October 1935, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Avery Bud Robnett, was 23 and his mother, Helen Larine Pasley, was 21. He married Geraldine Barney on 1 October 1965, in Nevada, United States. He lived in Cimarron Township, Pawnee, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. He died on 3 May 2000, in Anaheim, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Fairhaven Memorial Park, Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States.