When David Wesley Huffman was born on 28 December 1908, in Le Sueur Township, Kingsbury, South Dakota, United States, his father, George Huffman, was 30 and his mother, Emma J Peterson, was 21. He married Bertha Grace Kirkpatrick on 11 January 1949, in Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota, United States. He lived in Oto, Woodbury, Iowa, United States in 1920. He died on 8 October 2002, in Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Black Hills National Cemetery, Sturgis, Meade, South Dakota, United States.