When Thomas Everett Kennedy was born on February 11, 1929, in Findlay, Ohio, his father, Earl, was 42 and his mother, Marie, was 32. He married Jacqueline Maureen Martens on November 11, 1955, in New York City, New York. He died on March 19, 1994, in Lima, Ohio, at the age of 65, and was buried in the Kennedy Family plot in Maple Grove Cemetery.