When Ella Maria Asche was born on 2 May 1902, in Deshler, Thayer, Nebraska, United States, her father, Kurt Heinrich Asche, was 27 and her mother, Amanda Regina Dorothea Werner, was 22. She married Gustav Henry Lunzmann on 10 April 1921, in Deshler, Thayer, Nebraska, United States. She lived in Hardy, Nuckolls, Nebraska, United States in 1930 and Hardy Election Precinct, Nuckolls, Nebraska, United States in 1940. She died on 29 August 1967, in Deshler, Thayer, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Saint Peters Lutheran Cemetery, Byron, Thayer, Nebraska, United States.