Trivia

She was a vocalist with the Glenn Miller Band.

She has a sharp memory in her old age, which is thought to derive from her love of jigsaw puzzles.

Reseda, California, USA: Living with her two daughters. (April 2015)

She was singing at the famed Stork Club around Christmas 1944 where she was spotted by a talent scout who brought her to Hollywood in January 1945 to begin her career in motion pictures.

She is the mother of two daughters and a son.

She had caught COVID-19 in the days leading up to her death.

She is a fan of the television shows Murder, She Wrote (1984), The Golden Girls (1985), and Touched by an Angel (1994).

Not to be confused with the television personality Martha Stewart.

Vocalist with the orchestras of Claude Thornhill, Harry James and Glenn Miller.

Graduated from New Utrecht High School, Brooklyn, New York in 1939.

She was raised Roman Catholic but converted to Christian Science in 1956. She remained a strict adherent following her conversion and refrained from smoking, drinking, and doctor visits.

Stewart was the subject of an erroneous obituary in 2012, published by the website of Variety magazine when she was actually still living in California under the name Martha Shelley.

Had a network radio contract with NBC.

Mother, with husband David Shelley, of daughter Colleen Shelley.