When Dorothy Belle Anderson was born on 10 October 1906, in South Dakota, United States, her father, Meland Anderson, was 44 and her mother, Ellen Ella Marie Burrell, was 39. She married Claude Larson on 10 March 1926, in Deuel, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 25 September 1974, in Canby, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 67.