When Maria Fortina Bartola Velazquez Reyes was born on 16 August 1920, in Piedras Negras, Tetla de la Solidaridad, Tlaxcala, Mexico, her father, Josè Luis de Jesus Velazquez Brenis, was 29 and her mother, Maria Catarina Guadalupe de la Luz Reyes Leon, was 27. She married Jose Paciano Montiel Herrera in 1937, in Terrenate, Tlaxcala, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 29 October 2001, in San Isidro, Tetla de la Solidaridad, Tlaxcala, Mexico, at the age of 81, and was buried in Tetla de la Solidaridad, Tlaxcala, Mexico.