Michael Anthony McLin, affectionately known as "Big Dawg" was born February 4, 1962, to Vernon and Dorothy McLin in Denver, Colorado. He attended Metropolitan State University. He married Anita Roberts on May 8, 2021. He was a member of Greater Zion Temple Church of God in Christ, Temple, Texas. He worked for Veterans Administration Hospital in Temple, Texas. He also worked as a Professional Culinary Chef and Disc Jockey. He was preceded in death by his father, Vernon McLin; grandmother, Lee Bertha Gamble; two aunts, three uncles, and grandparents, Maggie Young and Sam Hill.

Survivors are his wife, Anita McLin of Temple; sons, Clifton McLin of Temple, Tyrone Roberts of Nolanville, and Keith Roberts Jr., of Moody; daughters, Nicole Overton and Daezja Allen both of Temple; his mother, Dorothy McLin of Temple; sisters, Debbie Newton of Pflugerville and Rita Jacobs of North Carolina; fourteen grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and a host of relatives and friends.