When Donald Wayne Abrams was born on 2 March 1930, in Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, United States, his father, William Earl Abrams, was 44 and his mother, Nellie Ione Moss, was 32. He married Carole Martha DePaepe in May 1948, in East Moline, Rock Island, Illinois, United States. He lived in Gordon, Sheridan, Nebraska, United States in 1940. He died on 17 September 2005, in Rock Island, Illinois, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Greenview Memorial Gardens, East Moline, Rock Island, Illinois, United States.