When Elmer Ray Storms was born on 11 November 1896, in Windsor, Weld, Colorado, United States, his father, John Ray Storms, was 25 and his mother, Anna Elisabeth Williams, was 21. He married Beatrice Florence May Jones on 28 November 1925. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Bonneville, Idaho, United States in 1935 and Idaho Falls Election Precinct 3, Bonneville, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 9 September 1959, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Ucon, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.