When Demetrius Woloshyn was born on 15 March 1895, in Khudykovtse, Khotyn, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, his father, Fedor Woloshyn, was 37 and his mother, Yustyna Medwid, was 29. He married Nastasia Fosty on 30 January 1917, in Tolstoi, Franklin, Manitoba, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died in November 1979, in North Battleford, North Battleford No. 437, Saskatchewan, Canada, at the age of 84.