Ron Frey was born in 1947 to Leo and Lillian Frey in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. He graduated from Poplar Bluff High School in 1966 and volunteered for the draft doing basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and AIT at Fort Polk, Louisiana. He was deployed to Vietnam in April 1967 and assigned to Alpha Company 2^nd Battalion 60^th Infantry Regiment. Ron spent all of his time in Vietnam in the Mekong Delta on search and destroy missions and was wounded twice, the first time, just after he arrived in Vietnam. Upon discharge in 1968, he returned to Poplar Bluff, Missouri where he retired from Kroger Grocery Stores. He also attended Three rivers Junior College in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, graduating from Kilgore College in 1985. Ron married Judy Carol Swartz in 1974 and they have two children and one grandchild.