When Dorothy Burton Anderson was born on 8 June 1902, in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, her father, Charles Finley Anderson, was 38 and her mother, Minerva Ann Flowers, was 29. She married Harold Kames Philips about 1924, in United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died on 21 February 1998, at the age of 95.