When Clyde Newton Arvin was born on 27 February 1911, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, his father, Hubert Wendle Arvin, was 34 and his mother, Gertrude Ann Miller, was 32. He married Merle June Robertson on 4 November 1937, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Spokane City, Spokane, Washington, United States in 1940. He died on 25 August 1998, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 87.