When Carl Lewis Ruppel was born on 11 March 1914, in Jefferson, Colorado, United States, his father, Lewis Frederick Ruppel Jr, was 35 and his mother, Ethel Elvira Strohl, was 27. He lived in York, York, Nebraska, United States in 1920 and Madison Square Township, Loup, Nebraska, United States in 1930. He died on 5 December 2002, at the age of 88, and was buried in Taylor, Loup, Nebraska, United States.