When Lloyd John Zimmer was born on 22 April 1908, in Pleasanton, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States, his father, Adolf Zimmer, was 33 and his mother, Minnie Rhine, was 30. He married Vera Gertrude Waters on 24 May 1924. He lived in Cuming, Nebraska, United States in 1935 and Chappell Election Precinct, Deuel, Nebraska, United States in 1940. He died on 10 September 1980, in Chappell, Deuel, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Chappell Cemetery, Chappell, Deuel, Nebraska, United States.