 Deen was born shortly after his parents moved to Bossier Parish.His mother, the former Evelyn Young (born 1930), is a daughter of the late Casper Callaway Young, a Bossier Parish native, and the former Cardille Jones, originally from Simsboro in Lincoln Parish.His father is a native of Grant Parish, a retired educator at the Rocky Mount School in Bossier Parish, a former member of the Bossier Parish Police Jury, and a four-term state legislator.