Joseph Wegrzyn was the fourth child and second son born to Henry Andrew Wegrzyn and Julia Brash, on December 19, 1903, in Austria/Poland. He was probably born just before his father immigrated to the United States, and was only three when his mother brought he and the rest of his siblings to the United States to join his father. At that time, he had blond hair and brown eyes. The family settled in Chicago, IL.
Joseph died October 20, 1984, in Chicago at the age of 80.