When Dorothy Adeline Beitler was born on 15 July 1918, in Cowles, Webster, Nebraska, United States, her father, William Evan Beitler, was 37 and her mother, Emma Pearl Harpham, was 33. She married Richard Elmo Johnson on 28 January 1942, in Phillipsburg, Phillips, Kansas, United States. She lived in Elm Creek Township, Webster, Nebraska, United States for about 10 years and Red Cloud City, Webster, Nebraska, United States in 1940. She died on 18 March 2003, in Red Cloud, Webster, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Lebanon, Smith, Kansas, United States.