When Jose Portillo Jurado was born in 1905, his father, Erasmo Pablo Portillo, was 37 and his mother, Maria De La Lus Jurado, was 33. He married Altagracia Perez on 22 October 1931, in San Juan, Balleza, Chihuahua, Mexico. He died on 19 November 1986, in Juárez, Ascensión, Chihuahua, Mexico, at the age of 81.