Ralph Raymond Roggerman was born February 14, 1888 in Dundee, Michigan. He was the third child of Charles and Louisa (Raymond or Rehman) Roggerman.

On March 23, 1909, he married Adeline Estella "Addie" Getty in Lucas County, Ohio. At the time, his occupation was given as "sailor" on the marriage certificate. He was working on a ship that traveled the Great Lakes.

In the 1910 census, Ralph and Addie are listed as living with her parents, Ervin and Lena (Oliver) Getty in Ridgeway Township, Lenawee County, Michigan. That was located about 10 miles west of Dundee and south of the town of Britton.

Tragedy struck the family on November 25, 1929. Addie was riding in a car in Lenawee County being driven by her eldest son, Ervin who was 19 years old. According to the newspaper report, a stray horse ran out in from of them causing the car to roll over in the ditch after striking the animal. Addie was taken to Bixby Hospital in Adrian, Michigan where she was pronounced dead at 4:00 a.m. on November 26. She was 38 years old and was buried in Ridgeway Cemetery a few days later. Ervin suffered a broken left arm and cuts and bruises in the accident.

In the 1930 census, Ralph was listed as a lodger at 218 Monroe Street in Dundee living with 72 year old Hattie Koecher and his youngest child, Kenneth Roggerman, Sr. who would have been 5 years old at the time.

Ralph worked at the Monroe Auto Equipment plant in Monroe during the 1940s and 1950s until his retirement.

On March 17, 1951 at the age of 63, he married Edith C Daykin in Angola, Indiana. She and her daughter, Dorothy who would have been 13 at the time came to reside with Ralph at 218 Monroe Street which he had purchased by then. He would live there the rest of his life except for a brief period at a nursing home in Frenchtown Township shortly before his death in 1982.
 

Ralph Raymond Roggerman died on March 19, 1982 at the age of 94 in Mercy Memorial Hospital in Monroe. He is buried at Ridgeway Cemetery in Ridgeway Township, Lenawee County, Michigan. Edith who was born February 13, 1909 passed away on July 30, 1991 at the age of 82. She is also buried at Ridgeway Cemetery.