When Orlin Calvin Dwyer was born on 14 July 1925, in Mapleton, Bourbon, Kansas, United States, his father, Orlin Calvin Dwyer Sr., was 44 and his mother, Ida Mae Parrish, was 39. He married Elva Jean Coats on 8 October 1944, in Benicia, Solano, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Rural, Chase, Kansas, United States in 1935 and Mill Creek Township, Bourbon, Kansas, United States in 1940. He died on 24 February 2002, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Elk Grove, Sacramento, California, United States.