FRANK BERTHOLD OPPECKER JR. was born in Camden in 1924 to Frank (Franz) Oppecker and his wife, he former Louise Wichtel. His father was musically gifted and trained on the violin, and by the 1920s he was a member of the faculty of the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music, and was giving music lessons to students on his own in Camden by 1927.

The Oppecker family owned a home at 451 Carteret Street by 1924. By January of 1928 the family included a brother, Joseph, and a sister,m Evelyn followed. Both sons would follow their father into music. Frank and Louise Oppecker would remain at 451 Carteret Street into the 1960s.

Frank B. Oppecker Jr. was a January 1944 graduate of Camden High School, where his classmates included Leonard Coplein and Riletta Twyne, who in later years would both work alongside him in the Camden public school system, Miss Twyne under her married name of Mrs. Riletta Cream. Other classmates included Rocco Macchia, killed in action in while serving with the United States Army in January of 1945, and Samuel Goudelock, who was killed in action while serving with the United States Army in Korea. Frank Italiano had a career in law and politics in Camden. Three other classmates, Douglas Holmes, Joseph Mangold, and Melvin Burt later became Camden police officers, Holmes rising to the rank of Chief of Police.

Inducted into the United States Army on December 21, 1944, Frank B. Oppecker Jr. completed his military service and returned to Camden where he taught in the Camden public school system for 31 years. He was church organist at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and Asbury Methodist Church in Camden, and was active in many other musical ventures in the area until retiring to Athens, Georgia in 1986

Frank B. Oppecker Jr. married Janet Peterson. The marriage produced two children, Kenneth and Karen. Mr. Oppecker passed away at the age of 85 in Athens, Georgis on October 2, 2009.r