When Wesley Virgil Coombs was born on 8 June 1944, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Virgil Wilford Coombs, was 33 and his mother, Virginia Avoy Childs, was 21. He married Joan Marie Houskeeper on 6 October 1962, in Wellington, Carbon, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 9 November 1999, in Price, Carbon, Utah, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Wellington City Cemetery, Wellington, Carbon, Utah, United States.