Alton Harold "Al" Miller was born to Maggie and Butch Miller on November 8, 1939 in Petersburg, Michigan and was the first child of Florence "Maggie" (Heiden) and Harold "Butch" Miller.

Al was a 1957 graduate of Ida High School.

On September 12, 1959, he married Sharon K. Eckel and they had four children before their divorce in 1985.

Alton died on February 26, 2020 at Toledo Hospital in Toledo, Ohio at the age of 80.