Robert W. Bugbee was born August 21, 1926 in Omaha, Nebraska to CO Bugbee and Ehtel Passoth. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in the early 1950s. In the late 1960s, Bugbee founded the Las Vegas, Nevada Boys Club an organization that engaged young men in sports and skill building to keep them out of trouble. Bugbee died on September 02, 1993.