When Charles Richard Demaree was born on 14 September 1931, in Madison, Jefferson, Indiana, United States, his father, James Hayes Demaree, was 28 and his mother, Mary Agnes Mathews, was 28. He married Dorothy Louise Crain on 9 October 1952, in Madison, Jefferson, Indiana, United States. He died on 6 November 2009, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Madison, Jefferson, Indiana, United States.