When Linas Moad Mitchell was born on 25 January 1917, in Hammon, Roger Mills, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Henry Walden Mitchell, was 28 and his mother, Laura Belle Moad, was 24. He married Margie Maurine Taysom on 8 May 1942, in Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Kiowa Township, Roger Mills, Oklahoma, United States in 1920 and San Antonio Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 1 November 2004, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Richland, Benton, Washington, United States.