When Dennis Dudley Anderson was born on 12 July 1912, in Arnoldsburg, Calhoun, West Virginia, United States, his father, Lemuel Francis Anderson, was 34 and his mother, Georgia K. Starcher, was 19. He married Velma Starcher in 1935, in Roane, West Virginia, United States. He lived in Spencer, Roane, West Virginia, United States in 1920 and Magisterial District 3, Boyle, Kentucky, United States in 1930. He died on 18 July 1989, in Calhoun, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 77.