When Dirk Visser was born on 21 December 1886, in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States, his father, Roelf Visser, was 45 and his mother, Greitje Broekema, was 30. He married Fredrika de Haan on 21 June 1939, in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States. He lived in Plainfield Township, Kent, Michigan, United States for about 10 years. He died on 12 November 1951, in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States, at the age of 64.