When Raoul Emiel Van Overbeke was born on 29 May 1902, in Blankenberge, West Flanders, Belgium, his father, Desiderius Henricus Vanoverbeke, was 36 and his mother, Alice Rosalie Cathérine Hilderson, was 30. He married Germana Magdalena Devlieghere on 16 October 1924, in Blankenberge, West Flanders, Belgium. He died on 3 March 1992, in Brugge, West Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 89, and was buried in Brugge, West Flanders, Belgium.