 Despite the severity of his injuries, Doss managed to raise a family on a small farm in Rising Fawn, Georgia.Doss married Dorothy Pauline Schutte on August 17, 1942, and they had one child, Desmond "Tommy" Doss Jr., born in 1946.Dorothy died on November 17, 1991 in a car accident (Desmond was driving and lost control of the vehicle).