When Roy Thomas Churchill was born on 4 January 1917, in Consort, Special Area No. 4, Alberta, Canada, his father, Thomas Franklin Churchill, was 42 and his mother, Lorena Louisia Clawson, was 32. He married Phyllis Dora Walmesley on 14 April 1936, in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 22 March 2004, in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 87.