Walter C. Burmeister was the son of Fredericka "Rika" (Laas) and Louis Burmeister. He was born in 1994 and died in 1978 in Toledo, Ohio.

He married Henna or Herma M. Staadt on December 9, 1914 in Monroe, Michigan. Henna was born August 26, 1895 in Ohio and died October 9, 1930 at the age of 35 in Toledo, Ohio. She died of tuberculosis and influenza.

On February 2, 1938, Walter married Cora Pearl (Moog) Ford in Lucas County, Ohio. She was born August 3, 1901 and passed away on May 12, 1989 in Sylvania, Lucas County, Ohio..

He and Henna had two children:

  1. Herman Burmeister
  2. Norma (Burmeister) Wenz