From 1984 until her death of cancer at the age of sixty-nine in Southern Baptist Hospital of New Orleans, Martinez served as a director of St. Jude's Children's Hospital in [[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]]. She is interred at the Lake Lawn Mausoleum in New Orleans.<ref name=obit/> | From 1984 until her death of cancer at the age of sixty-nine in Southern Baptist Hospital of New Orleans, Martinez served as a director of St. Jude's Children's Hospital in [[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]]. She is interred at the Lake Lawn Mausoleum in New Orleans.<ref name=obit/> |