William G. "Teddy Will" Doerfel was born circa 1907 in Pennsylvania. He was the son of Dorothea (Rehmann) and Julius Doerfel.

In the 1910, 1920 and 1930 census reports, he was living with his parents and siblings at 26 Henry Street in Palmyra Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. He was a truck driver for a cement company.

He died circa 1937 at the age of 30.