When Marvan Lane Fillerup was born on 10 December 1907, in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States, his father, Albert Frederick Fillerup, was 29 and his mother, Luella May Lane, was 28. He married Loraine Eleanor Moore on 8 February 1934, in Belfry, Carbon, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1930. He died on 2 December 1980, in Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States.