When Delma Alton Coggins was born on 16 May 1923, in Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States, his father, Fred Quay Coggin, was 34 and his mother, Maud Morris, was 28. He married Ruth Elizabeth Rash on 17 July 1982, in Clark, Nevada, United States. He lived in Locke Township, Rowan, North Carolina, United States in 1930. He died on 23 August 1992, in Lexington, Davidson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, United States.