Benjamin Wayne Richardson (Benny) was born on July 19, 1951, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and died on June 23, 2021, in Edmond, Oklahoma. His father was Rubin Namon Richardson, and his mother was Alice Joann Price.
Benny married his first wife, Karen Marie Wegley, on May 2, 1970. Together, they had three daughters. Melody, Tracy, and April. They would divorce on April 7, 1977.
In 1979, when he was 27, he had a fourth child, his only son, Nathaniel Wayne Richardson, with Cindy Walvoor, who was 15 or 16 at the time.
He married Carol J. Smith sometime around 1987. They had no children.
He played in bands his entire life. Mostly the guitar, but he also sang. He played in many local bands throughout the course of his life. Later, as his arthritis progressed, he taught himself the keyboard.