When Josephine Margaret Lewis was born on 1 December 1928, in Middletown, Henry, Indiana, United States, her father, Joseph Wesley Lewis, was 22 and her mother, Flossie Margaret Ryan, was 19. She married Trelon Wayne Corlew on 11 April 1944, in Indiana, United States. She died on 2 February 1968, in Anderson, Madison, Indiana, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Anderson, Madison, Indiana, United States.