When José Velazquez Rico was born on 8 January 1922, in Laguna Seca, Villa Victoria, Mexico, Mexico, his father, Juan Velazquez Camacho, was 29 and his mother, Susana Rico Gonzalez, was 25. He married Ana García Mercado in 1940, in Villa Victoria, Mexico, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 14 October 2002, in his hometown, at the age of 80, and was buried in Villa Victoria, Mexico, Mexico.