When John William Fleener was born on 12 February 1927, in Bloomington, Perry Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States, his father, Harold Fleener, was 30 and his mother, Irene M. or Flossie Morgan, was 27. He lived in Bloomington Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States for about 78 years. He died on 29 May 2008, in Bloomington, Perry Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Bloomington Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States.