When Viggo Kristensen was born on 16 July 1894, in Skallerup, Morsø Nørre, Thisted, Denmark, his father, Lars Balle Kristensen, was 33 and his mother, Kirsten Marie Poulsen Støvring, was 29. He married Kirstine Madsen on 27 February 1927, in Lødderup, Morsø Sønder, Thisted, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Skallerup, Thisted, Denmark for about 5 years and Øster Jølby, Thisted, Denmark in 1940. He died on 11 March 1968, in Øster Jølby, Morsø Nørre, Thisted, Denmark, at the age of 73, and was buried in Øster Jølby, Morsø Nørre, Thisted, Denmark.