When Enriqueta Alvarado Savaje was born on 28 October 1916, in Mexico City, Mexico, her father, Antonio Alvarado, was 25 and her mother, Enriqueta Savaje Juarez, was 28. She married José Refugio Alva Chávez on 7 November 1932, in Mexico City, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 16 January 2010, in her hometown, at the age of 93, and was buried in Mexico City, Mexico.