When Bobbie Lee Vonfeldt was born on 29 May 1925, in Kanorado, Sherman, Kansas, United States, his father, Johann Jacob Vonfeldt, was 26 and his mother, Helen Josephine Williams, was 22. He married Arlene Lorraine Townsend on 10 August 1944, in Amador, California, United States. He lived in Satanta, Haskell, Kansas, United States in 1930. He died on 26 November 2009, in Potter Valley, Mendocino, California, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Potter Valley, Mendocino, California, United States.