When Dorothy Marie Vander Weide was born on 20 July 1930, in Boyden, Sioux, Iowa, United States, her father, Arie Vander Weide, was 25 and her mother, Jennie Kooiker, was 25. She married Harold Vande Weerd on 17 January 1951, in Boyden, Sioux, Iowa, United States. She lived in Rural, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States in 1935 and Capel Township, Sioux, Iowa, United States in 1940. She died on 12 January 2001, in Sioux, Iowa, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Hospers Memorial Cemetery, Hospers, Sioux, Iowa, United States.