Clyde Wayne Oliver was born June 22, 1913 in Britton, Michigan as the son of Ernest H. and Mary (Curry) Oliver.

He graduated from Britton High School in June, 1931 and from Eastern Michigan University in June, 1934. During World War II from 1942 to 1945, Clyde served in the U.S. Coast Guard in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska. He was a Lieutenant Junior Grade. He was commissioned in New London, Connecticut in November of 1942 and was then stationed in Alaska. Prior to this, he had been a teacher in the Detroit schools.

He was married to Lillian Hunt on December 28, 1943. They had one daughter, Susan Oliver.

Clyde died on May 7, 1995 in Chandler, Maricopa County, Arizona at the age of 81 and is buried in Ridgeway Cemetery, Ridgeway Township, Lenawee County, Michigan.

Lillian who was born in 1918 died in 2017 at the age of 99.