When Rodney Hill Fowler was born on 23 March 1891, in Greenbrier, Faulkner, Arkansas, United States, his father, James Robert Fowler, was 29 and his mother, Cynthia Louise Wooley, was 23. He married Arpie Jane Rice on 23 December 1917, in Beckham, Oklahoma, United States. He lived in Beckham, Oklahoma, United States in 1935 and Wynnewood, Garvin, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 13 March 1963, in Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Mulberry Cemetery, Roger Mills, Oklahoma, United States.