When Karl Ivar Sigvard Johansson (Johanson) was born on 8 March 1909, in Bromma, Stockholm, Sweden, his father, Karl Ivar Johansson Sundaeus, was 20 and his mother, Johanna Kristina Charlotta Liedstrom, was 19. He married Fannie (Fanny) Helena Lindgren on 5 October 1935, in Eskilstuna, Södermanland, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Botkyrka, Stockholm, Sweden in 1909. He died on 20 March 1972, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Redwood Memorial Estates, West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.