Elroy had one brother, Clayton H. Lee (born 19 April 1921 Crookston, Minnesota).
Elroy married Bernice Lucile Lee (née Barholz; (28 April 1918 - 9 July 2007).
A stone memorial commemorating the lives of Elroy and Bernice was laid at Concordia Cemetery, Fertile, Minnesota.
Barron's radio career started at Nebraska-based KOIL station in 1944.
In the late 1980s, he wrote the book The Odyssey of the Mid-Nite Flyer, which charts many of the unknown territory bands of the Midwest throughout the 1930s-1950's.