Samuel is een zoon van Hartog Okker en Clara Schenkkan. Hij trouwde 22 februari 1912 met Louisa Tunninge (23 jaar), dochter van Jacob Tunninge en Cato Frank.
Samuel Okker was married to Louise Tuininga. He was a travelling salesman. He attended the wedding of his daughter Carla Okker to Joseph Nardus Schrijver. The wedding was performed at Westerbork transit camp on 24 April 1943. Record of marriage certificates of the Westerbork municipality, currently at the archives of Gemeente Midden-Drenthe in Beilen