When Mary Luretta Templeman was born on 24 August 1913, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, her father, Robert Hardy Templeman, was 36 and her mother, Mary E. Wells, was 36. She married Bluford Arvil Jeffries on 16 September 1929, in Hardin, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Oakdale, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States in 1920. She died on 27 August 2002, in Hemet, Riverside, California, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in San Jacinto Valley Cemetery, San Jacinto, Riverside, California, United States.