When William David Lakey was born on 19 September 1911, in Dozier, Collingsworth, Texas, United States, his father, Thomas Richard Lakey, was 23 and his mother, Alice Irene Sides, was 18. He married Dorothy Loyce Walker on 25 December 1932, in Dill City, Washita, Oklahoma, United States. He lived in Bettina Township, Beckham, Oklahoma, United States in 1930. He died on 14 February 2002, at the age of 90, and was buried in Sayre, Beckham, Oklahoma, United States.