When Janice Lehew was born on 31 May 1933, in Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Clarence Clayton Lehew, was 29 and her mother, Beatrice Billings, was 24. She married Robert Bernard Gaston, Jr on 7 June 1957, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 8 October 1961, in her hometown, at the age of 28, and was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, United States.