When George James Gamar was born on 30 September 1932, in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, his father, Thomas Joseph Gamar, was 31 and his mother, Florence Mabel Bohonan, was 30. He married Jannette Marsh on 19 November 1951, in Olive, Orange, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Jamaica, Queens, New York Colony, British Colonial America in 1935 and Queens, New York City, New York, United States in 1940. He died on 28 January 2008, in Orange, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 75.