When Mikil Kurns was born on 6 July 1908, in Mellen, Ashland, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Mikil Kuras, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Yaricick, was 30. He married Katherine Mary Lahr on 24 June 1941, in Lewistown, Fergus, Montana, United States. He lived in Fergus, Fergus, Montana, United States in 1930. He died on 3 June 1994, in Lewistown, Fergus, Montana, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Lewistown, Fergus, Montana, United States.