Ira Ryan DeGlopper was born on November 25, 2001 in Bethesda, Maryland. He is the great-grandson of Eva Dietz Burdick, late of Buffalo, New York. His parents are Jacob Roger DeGlopper and Anne Johnson DeGlopper of Kensington, Maryland. Mrs. Burdick was the daughter of Peter and Anna Dietz, late of Kersey. She was married to Roger Lyman Burdick and had three children, John Martin Burdick, Barbara Burdick Langlotz, and Eva Burdick DeGlopper.