When Jose Trinidad Pimentel Ortiz was born on 31 May 1927, in Natagaima, Tolima, Colombia, his father, Cosme Pimentel Prada, was 39 and his mother, Telma Ortiz, was 37. He married Teresa Useche Suache on 7 September 1955, in Natagaima, Tolima, Colombia. He died on 21 June 2008, in Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia, at the age of 81.