When Eugene Scott Thorp was born on 9 September 1929, in Council, Adams, Idaho, United States, his father, William Scott Thorp, was 29 and his mother, Carrie or Cary Rebecca Oling, was 23. He lived in Council Election Precinct, Adams, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 6 February 2006, in Lakewood, Pierce, Washington, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Lakewood, Pierce, Washington, United States.