When Wayne Alva Aller was born on 30 August 1918, in Donald, Yakima, Washington, United States, his father, Ira Erasmus Aller, was 27 and his mother, Mabel Claire Bowen, was 26. He married Vera Jeanette Milsted on 10 June 1941, in Santa Rosa, Florida, United States. He lived in Wapato, Yakima, Washington, United States in 1935 and San Diego, San Diego, California, United States in 1940. He died on 27 October 1990, in San Joaquin, California, United States, at the age of 72.