When George Edward Journeay was born on 18 July 1919, in San Angelo, Tom Green, Texas, United States, his father, Samuel Edward Journay, was 23 and his mother, Laura Grace Chamberlain, was 22. He married Anna Beth Gray on 9 February 1941, in Tom Green, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Justice Precinct 1, Tom Green, Texas, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 16 December 2002, in Brady, McCulloch, Texas, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Odessa, Ector, Texas, United States.