When Ernest Victor Soderquist Jr was born on 13 May 1906, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, Ernst Victor Soderquist, was 39 and his mother, Josephine Elizabeth Dietz, was 30. He married Elinore Forrest about 1924. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 2 July 1986, in Bridgeview, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Saint Mary Catholic Cemetery, Evergreen Park, Cook, Illinois, United States.