When Harry Everrett Collier was born on 23 April 1944, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, his father, Joshua Berl Collier, was 32 and his mother, Pansy Esther Ansite, was 28. He married Sandra Suzanne Sommers on 28 January 1967, in Kent, King, Washington, United States. He died on 1 October 2002, in Sumner, Pierce, Washington, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Sumner, Pierce, Washington, United States.