When Donald Eldridge Misner was born on 3 January 1937, in Chauncey, Dover Township, Athens, Ohio, United States, his father, Clifford Gale Misner, was 25 and his mother, Ethel Madeline Phillips, was 23. He lived in Athens Township, Athens, Ohio, United States in 1940 and Lake Wylie, York, South Carolina, United States in 1994. He died on 28 November 1994, in Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Athens, Ohio, United States.