When Earl W. Lammers was born on 29 February 1904, in Waterloo Township, Jackson, Michigan, United States, his father, Alfred Henry Lammers, was 39 and his mother, Honora Marie Marsh, was 28. He married Genevieve Fleming on 14 September 1932. He lived in Blackman Township, Jackson, Michigan, United States in 1920 and Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, United States in 1930. He died on 3 June 1992, at the age of 88.