When William H Troth Jr was born on 23 January 1939, in Underwood, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, William H. Troth, was 23 and his mother, Gertrude Maurine Callison, was 21. He lived in St. Lawrence Township, Hand, South Dakota, United States in 1940 and Cherokee, Iowa, United States in 2006. He died on 15 February 2006, in Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, United States, at the age of 67.