At age 19 she went to England to study nursing and became a RN and a midwife. She lived and worked in England for 12 years before emigrating to Canada in 1958.
She emigrated to Montreal, where she worked at the Montreal General Hospital and where she met John Morgan Philip and they got married in 1962. After Dorothy and John got married, they moved to Vancouver where she worked at the Vancouver General Hospital and St. Paul's Hospital.
Dorothy was a great traveler. She toured South America, South Africa, South East Asia and Scandinavia. Dorothy and John went on a cruise around the world in 2000, they also cruised in Alaska, the South Pacific, and the Caribbean.
In retirement Dorothy and John became long-distance cyclists and they cycled in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, and Switzerland.
Dorothy was a member of Westmount Baptist Church in Montreal and she had her membership transferred to First Baptist Church in Vancouver in 1962, where she was a member for over fifty years. Dorothy was predeceased by her husband in 2017.
She will be missed by her nieces and nephews.