When Corliss Roode Munger was born on 26 May 1911, in West Branch, Cedar, Iowa, United States, his father, Milo William Munger, was 34 and his mother, Caroline E. Smith, was 26. He lived in Cedar, Cedar, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Center Township, Henry, Iowa, United States in 1930. He died on 30 April 2003, in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States.