When Dorothy Belle Bishop was born on 2 May 1916, in Durango, La Plata, Colorado, United States, her father, Harvey Carl Bishop, was 23 and her mother, Anna Brown, was 22. She married Arie Johannes Van Teylingen on 8 August 1936, in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Florida, La Plata, Colorado, United States in 1920. She died on 11 January 2009, in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Memorial Gardens Cemetery and Mausoleum, Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States.