Family
- grandmother Addie President: maternal grandmother
- father Costello Wolfe: worked for the Department of Corrections in Frankfort, Kentucky
- mother Anna Wolfe: was principal at the all-black private elementary school that Wolfe attended in Frankfort; died December 1996 of heart disease
- brother William Wolfe: kidney donor for Wolfe's transplant operation; lives in Philadelphia; born c 1947
- sister : older; moved to Houston; parents followed her there so his mother could be near some heart specialists
- brother : younger; died in infancy
