When Dorothy Carolina Anderson was born on 12 July 1901, in Colby, Thomas, Kansas, United States, her father, Anton Marinus Anderson, was 29 and her mother, Gertrude Marie Jespersen, was 24. She married Alva Robert Sykes on 14 September 1921, in Belleville, Republic, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Hardy, Nuckolls, Nebraska, United States in 1910. She died on 21 March 2005, in Superior, Nuckolls, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 103, and was buried in Spring Creek Cemetery, Ruskin, Nuckolls, Nebraska, United States.