Floyd Gottfredson was born on 5 May 1905 in Kaysville, Utah, USA. He was married to Mattie Mason. He died on 22 July 1986 in Montrose, California, USA.
Gottfredson was born into a large Mormon family in Kaysville, Utah. The three brothers and four sisters traced their roots to their great-grandfather who had immigrated to the United States from Denmark in the 1840s.
