Vee and Karen Bergen married December 28, 1963.

Born to LeRoy Bergen and Martha Tembrock.

In the early 1980s Vee moved his family from Los Angeles to St. Cloud, Minnesota, where he and Karen organized annual fundraising concerts to provide music and arts facilities for local children. 

 Karen Bergen married Bobby Vee Velline and they had four children, including sons Jeffrey, Thomas, and Robert, who performed with Vee in his later career, and daughter Jennifer. 

Karen died of kidney failure on August 3, 2015.