When Clarence Ray Dick Quivey was born on 23 August 1901, in Suver, Polk, Oregon, United States, his father, John Quivey, was 63 and his mother, Lucy Ann Pulse, was 32. He married Lillian J Deal on 23 June 1933, in Clark, Washington, United States. He lived in Independence, Polk, Oregon, United States in 1910. He died on 2 January 1951, in Coos, Oregon, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Coquille, Coos, Oregon, United States.