When Dorothy Kathleen Stevens was born on 21 July 1897, in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, her father, Charles Stevens, was 29 and her mother, Fanny Forrest Chaplin, was 25. She married Leslie Emerson Ash on 22 March 1918. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 2 September 1963, in her hometown, at the age of 66.