When Herbert Milton Luckie was born on 18 February 1906, in Alabama, United States, his father, Gilford Curtis Luckie, was 31 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Griffith, was 29. He married Mary Elizabeth Little on 14 August 1927, in Escambia, Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Escambia, Florida, United States in 1935 and Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States in 1940. He died on 27 January 1968, in Cocoa Beach, Brevard, Florida, United States, at the age of 61.