When Vernon Jesse Armstrong was born on 26 June 1917, in Frankfort, Franklin, Kentucky, United States, his father, Lester Chinn Armstrong, was 28 and his mother, Emma Frances Ethington, was 22. He married Marion Evelyn Schafer on 2 February 1940, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in Peoria, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1920 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. He died on 5 February 1997, in Toquerville, Washington, Utah, United States, at the age of 79.