Malcolm Truslow was born on September 10, 1931 to Harold Manning and Mildred B Schryver Truslow in Hempstead, New York. His father was in banking.
Malcolm had one older sibling, his sister, Dorothy (Doris) A Truslow.
When he was 18, Malcolm joined the National Guard. His father died shortly after that, and his mother died the following year.
He married Beatrice Greenwald in 1964 in Staten Island, NY. His sister, Doris, never married.
He died on December 16, 1978.