George Gomez was born circa 1915 in the Vinegar Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. His father, Zararias Gomez, was born in Ilog, Philippines, in 1878. He immigrated to the United States in the 1900s. His mother, Mary "Mamie" Atlackson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1888. Her father was a Norwegian immigrant and her mother was of German descent. He lived on Hudson Avenue and Johnson Street in the Downtown neighborhood of Brooklyn until the 1950s, when he moved to Emerson Place in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn.
George and his father worked for the New York Central Railroad as deck hands, moving barges with tugboats in New York Harbor. Later George worked for the New York City Park Service as a gardener. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, most notably at Guadalcanal, and was awarded the Bronze Star for his service.
He married once and had no children. Later in life he lived in the Middle Village neighborhood of Queens, New York, where he died in 2011.