When Robert William Fowler was born on 21 August 1925, in Thorpe, McDowell, West Virginia, United States, his father, William Fowler, was 48 and his mother, Nancy Mitchem, was 39. He lived in Adkin Magisterial District, McDowell, West Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 6 May 2009, in Statesville, Iredell, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Princeton, Mercer, West Virginia, United States.