When Lester Emanuel Perkins was born on 24 August 1908, in Otto, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States, his father, Ralph Devaull Perkins, was 27 and his mother, Rachel Sanders, was 23. He married Bertha Eudora Reid on 3 January 1928, in Basin, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Big Horn, Wyoming, United States in 1935 and Election District 9 Greybull, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States in 1940. He died on 3 July 1983, in Basin, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Burlington Cemetery, Burlington, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States.