When Maria del Refugio Velazquez Reyes was born on 22 February 1907, in Arizona, United States, her father, Josè Cruz Velazquez chavez, was 30 and her mother, Mauricia Reyes Gomez, was 27. She married José Florencio Reyes on 20 April 1940, in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 30 December 2010, in El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States, at the age of 103.