She married South ("Bob") Burn after World War II and the couple made their home on Waldron Island.

Burn worked on her meticulous illustrations in the evenings, in "a small cabin where she spends the day at work after chopping enough wood to keep the fire going through the day, hauling two buckets of water from the pump for washing brushes and pens and brewing 'a perpetual pot of tea.

Andrew Henry's Meadow won the Washington Governor's Art Award and was a Weekly Reader book club selection.

[citation needed] Doris "Doe" Burn died at her daughter's home in Bellingham, Washington on March 9, 2011, at the age of 87.

[5] Actor Zach Braff has been adapting Andrew Henry's Meadow into a film for Twentieth Century Fox since 2004.