When Ernest Fernald Bowles was born on 19 August 1907, in Maine, United States, his father, Irwin Bowles, was 23 and his mother, Eva Maude Fernald, was 25. He married Pearl Maude Horner on 2 April 1927, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years and Pasadena Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 15 April 2001, in Grass Valley, Nevada, California, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.