When Dorothy Louise Hartless was born on 14 July 1929, in Riverside, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States, her father, Charles Harrison Hartless, was 34 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Clark, was 34. She married Russell Doley Coleman on 3 January 1948, in Green Forest, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in South River, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States in 1930. She died on 19 March 1951, in Buena Vista, Virginia, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Buena Vista, Virginia, United States.