When Walter Albert Schuler was born on 1 January 1912, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, Frank Carl Schuler Sr, was 27 and his mother, Martha Maria Louise Berndt, was 24. He married Viola Sophie Adelina Rateike on 1 February 1934, in Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Wheeling, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1930 and Arlington Heights, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1940. He died on 25 April 1994, in Streator, LaSalle, Illinois, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Arlington Heights, Cook, Illinois, United States.