When Burdette Ray Hummer was born on 3 May 1919, in Kiester, Faribault, Minnesota, United States, his father, Andrew Ray Hummer, was 28 and his mother, Martha M. Meyer, was 25. He married Marian Louise Fethke on 1 November 1946, in Kiester, Faribault, Minnesota, United States. He lived in Kiester Township, Faribault, Minnesota, United States in 1940. He died on 22 August 2002, in Luverne, Rock, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Wells, Faribault, Minnesota, United States.