Louis Charles Ainsworth was born on July 22, 1921 in Manchester, New Hampshire. He served in the United States Air Force from 1942 to 1946 as a corporal and settled in Silver City, New Mexico. He married Mary Helen Rowley, who survived him after his death in 1986. He had five children, two from his marriage with Mary Helen and three from a previous marriage to Betty Jean Conger. He passed away on July 18, 1986 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.