When Jair Affonso de Farias Mello was born on 20 October 1907, in Rio Largo, Alagoas, Brazil, her father, Manoel Affonso de Mello Filho, was 42 and her mother, Lucia de Farias Cardoso, was 29. She married Ederlindo Serra on 8 December 1926, in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. She died in September 1986, in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the age of 78.