 Stabler was born in Bryan to the former Mable Louise Davenport (1912-2009) and John Calvin Stabler, Sr., who died in 1950, when Lonnie was four years of age.The Stablers also had an older son, Jay Calvin Stabler, Jr.In 1951, Mable married Anthony "Tony" Patranella, Sr., by whom she bore a third son, Anthony Patranella, Jr.