When Hans Marvin Freestad was born on 14 August 1915, in Forsyth, Rosebud, Montana, United States, his father, Hans Retius Larssen Friestad, was 38 and his mother, Gertie Nelsen, was 36. He married Mabel G Neumann on 2 March 1951, in Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Joint School District 30 Marcy, Rosebud, Montana, United States in 1940 and South Dakota, United States in 2005. He died on 6 February 2009, in Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 93.