When Dorothy Grace Heilbut was born on 4 May 1921, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Philip Stephen Heilbut, was 28 and her mother, Blanche Armstrong, was 22. She married Robert Stanley Telford on 10 July 1938, in Coalville, Summit, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Election Precinct 3, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 10 March 1995, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States.