When Charles Phillip McLaws was born on 4 October 1928, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, his father, Phillip DeLaMare McLaws, was 39 and his mother, Gladys W Willis, was 18. He lived in Supervisorial District 1, Navajo, Arizona, United States in 1940 and Winslow, Navajo, Arizona, United States for about 22 years. He died on 5 November 2009, in Flagstaff, Coconino, Arizona, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Desert View Cemetery, Winslow, Navajo, Arizona, United States.