Charlene (Roggerman) Ackerman  was born May 14, 1937 in Lansing, Michigan as the third and final child of Ervin and Francis (McDonald) Roggerman.

About 1955, she married Robert Cleveland and later was married to Neil Ackerman who was born in 1936. She and Neil had three children.

On September 22, 1982, Charlene died at the Abbot Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was 45 years old and is buried in Cherry Grove Cemetery in Farwell in Clare County, Michigan.