When Stephen Joseph Zierak was born on 19 February 1922, in Amsterdam, Montgomery, New York, United States, his father, Stephen A Zierak, was 27 and his mother, Annis Dodson, was 21. He married Katherine V Kelley on 13 May 1944, in Montpelier, Washington, Vermont, United States. He lived in Freehold, Freehold Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, British Colonial America in 1930. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 13 September 2004, in United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States.