When Dana Fellows Peck was born on 12 August 1919, in Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States, his father, Edward B. Peck, was 27 and his mother, Mary A. Pinkham, was 28. He married Geraldine Whear on 18 August 1944. He lived in Elizabeth, Union, New Jersey, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 11 August 1999, in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States.