When Robert Edward Tatro was born on 22 August 1922, in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Oscar Emil Tatro, was 33 and his mother, Emma Gibeau, was 32. He married Phyllis Canavan on 8 February 1947, in Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. He died on 28 July 2007, in Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.