When Francis Herman Kowallis was born on 13 August 1911, in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, his father, Herman Rudolph Kowallis, was 29 and his mother, Bertha Dorthea Thompson, was 30. He married Jessie Newsome on 18 October 1930. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Montebello, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Montebello Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 15 October 1964, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.