When Eben Verl Anderson was born on 9 February 1908, in Oldham, Kingsbury, South Dakota, United States, his father, Anthon Anderson, was 30 and his mother, Bertha M. Becker, was 24. He married Nyla Vera Jones on 20 August 1939, in Huron, Beadle, South Dakota, United States. He died on 6 May 1980, in Scottsdale, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Huron, Beadle, South Dakota, United States.