Andy Dutton was born in 1933. In her early career, she did some fashion modelling, and was a file clerk at Confederation Life. Throughout her life, she also fulfilled a variety of volunteer roles: cubmaster at Appleby College, a “pink lady” at Oakville-Trafalgar Hospital, a director of the West Oakville Rate payers Association, member and sometime Chair of the Oakville Crime Prevention Committee, and one of the first official tour guides at Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, where she served for over 15 years.

She married Lorne Henwood, her second husband, in 1970. In the early 1970s, she met Iris Owen when she attended a night class on parapsychology taught by Owen, and both the Henwoods joined the Toronto Society for Psychical Research (TSPR) on Owen’s invitation at the end of the class. They were members of the group that participated in the “Philip” experiments held by the TSPR from 1972-1977, which attempted to create a spirit or “thought-form” through intense collective visualization and concentration. This group also included A.R.G (George) and Iris Owen, the founders of the TSPR, Margaret Sparrows, and Dr. Joel Whitton, a psychologist. They created a backstory from the 17th century for this spirit, whom they named “Philip”, including love interests named “Margot” and “Dorothea”, and a tragic death. Through different circumstances – generally a traditional séance, as suggested by British psychologist Kenneth Batcheldor – the group experienced various phenomena, including table tilting, rapping, and levitation. The Henwoods remained active members of the TSPR until its demise in the early 1980s. She died of cancer 2012 in Oakville, ON.