When Herbert Herman Winkler was born on April 25, 1922, in Missouri, his father, Hugo, was 39 and his mother, Anna, was 33. He married Bernetta Juanita Moonier on June 3, 1944, in Perry County, Missouri. They had five children during their marriage. He died on May 20, 1979, in Wynne, Arkansas, at the age of 57.