When Ray Lewis McGary was born on 2 January 1932, in Indiana, United States, his father, Robert Franlkin McGary Sr., was 23 and his mother, Hazel Florence McCool, was 21. He lived in Washington Township, Knox, Indiana, United States in 1940. He died on 14 October 1983, in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Plainfield, Hendricks, Indiana, United States.