Bruce Donald Schechter was born on 2 June 1921, in Jetmore, Hodgeman, Kansas, United States, his father, Harry William Schechter, was 26 and his mother, Florence Ruth Lupfer, was 24. He married Elva Faye Henry on 2 September 1942, in Sterling, Rice County, Kansas, United States. He lived in Center Township, Hodgeman, Kansas, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 3 September 1990, in Lyons, Rice, Kansas, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Sterling, Rice, Kansas, United States.