When Harvey Livingway was born on 16 March 1911, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, his father, Joseph Allison Livingway, was 39 and his mother, Laura Hayward, was 38. He married Marilyn Rusnak on 19 July 1944, in Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Detroit Ward 16, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1920 and Berwyn, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1940. He died on 5 July 1996, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Sun City, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.