Details of Dorothy's birth are not known.

Dorothy married John Thomas Greenhough in 1930 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

She had the following children from her marriage to John Thomas Greenhough:

- Alan Greenhough	born in 1941 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
- Lillian Greenhough	born in 1942 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.