When Mason Robert Taylor (Whiting) was born on 17 April 1916, in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, his father, Joseph Ernest Whiting, was 35 and his mother, Betty Mae Taylor, was 24. He married Dorothy Fay Privat on 30 September 1943, in San Joaquin, California, United States. He lived in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1916. He died in 1998, at the age of 82.