When Walter Lunsford was born on 22 March 1929, in Henryetta, Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Jesse Henry Lunsford, was 31 and his mother, Mable Lawson, was 25. He married Mable Doretha Stilwell on 25 May 1951. He lived in Hickory Ridge Township, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, United States in 1930 and Weleetka Township, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. He died on 3 October 2006, in Inola, Rogers, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Floral Haven Memorial Gardens, Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.