When John Francis Santell was born on 20 May 1920, in Farrell, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Salvatore Santelli, was 32 and his mother, Carolina Patitucci, was 30. He had at least 1 son with Helen Katherine Smaltz. He lived in Trumbull, Trumbull Township, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States in 2003.