When Donald DeVries Abrams was born on 6 September 1929, in Milliken, Weld, Colorado, United States, his father, Abram Henry Abrams, was 30 and his mother, Julia Minerva Barstad, was 34. He died on 27 November 1945, in Johnstown, Weld, Colorado, United States, at the age of 16, and was buried in Berthoud, Larimer, Colorado, United States.