When Mary Alice Dahlheimer was born on 30 January 1923, in Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, her father, William Joseph Dahlheimer, was 40 and her mother, Alice Mary Ann Anfang, was 33. She married Arnold John Zachman on 30 August 1944, in Rogers, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Rogers, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States in 1940 and São Miguel, Azores, Portugal in 2009. She died on 21 October 2009, in Saint Michael, Wright, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 86.