When John Ted Squires was born on 13 October 1932, in Twin Falls, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States, his father, Dewey Legrande Squires, was 33 and his mother, Lena Isabell Anderson, was 24. He married Carol Joyce Hansen on 24 August 1957, in Emmett, Gem, Idaho, United States. He lived in Rexburg, Madison, Idaho, United States in 1935 and Murtaugh Election Precinct, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 16 December 2007, in Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Marsing-Homedale Cemetery, Marsing, Owyhee, Idaho, United States.