When Jack Lee Bates was born on 23 January 1915, in Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, United States, his father, Solomon Lee Bates, was 27 and his mother, Mary Vernetta Peterson, was 29. He married Leoncia Maria Diaz on 30 June 1937, in American Falls, Power, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Clark, Jefferson, Idaho, United States in 1920. He died on 13 March 2005, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States.