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Martinez was born in Milford in Worcester County in southern [[Massachusetts]]. She graduated from St. Mary's Academy there and then Hunter College]in [[New York City]]. During [[World War II]], she was a [[lieutenant]] in the [[United States Navy]] WAVES. In 1946, after her marriage to Reginald V. Martinez, Jr. (1922–2006),<ref name=ssdi>[http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi Social Security Death Index Interactive Search<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> she relocated to New Orleans, where her family resided until 1977, when the Martinezes moved to the nearby [[suburb]] of Kenner in Jefferson Parish.<ref name=obit/>​

Martinez was born in Milford in Worcester County in southern [[Massachusetts]]. She graduated from St. Mary's Academy there and then Hunter College]in [[New York City]]. During [[World War II]], she was a [[lieutenant]] in the [[United States Navy]] WAVES. In 1946, after her marriage to Reginald V. Martinez, Jr. (1922–2006),<ref name=ssdi>[http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi Social Security Death Index Interactive Search<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> she relocated to New Orleans, where her family resided until 1977, when the Martinezes moved to the nearby [[suburb]] of Kenner in Jefferson Parish.<ref name=obit/>​

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Martinez became active in the Republican Party during the 1971-1972 gubernatorial election, when she, along with state party chairman [[Charles and Virginia deGravelles| Charles deGravelles]] of [[Lafayette]] and his wife, [[Charles and Virginia deGravelles|Virginia deGravelles]], organized on behalf of Republican nominee [[David C. Treen]], then of Metairie in Jefferson Parish. Treen, only the second Republican since [[Reconstruction]] to make a serious bid for governor, was defeated in that election cycle but won the governorship eight years later in 1979. She later worked to elect William Henson Moore, of [[Baton Rouge]] and [[Bob Livingston]] of suburban New Orleans to the [[United States House of Representatives]]. Martinez was the founding president of the Lakefront Republican Women's Club and held membership in similar organizations in New Orleans and Kenner. She was a member of the Capitol Hill Club in Washington and the City Club in New Orleans. In addition, she was a former vice president of the Louisiana Federation of Republican Women, a political support group founded in 1953. She was the treasurer of the [[Republican National Convention]]s which met in 1980 in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], and in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]] in 1984.<ref name=obit/>​

Martinez became active in the Republican Party during the 1971-1972 gubernatorial election, when she, along with state party chairman [[Charles and Virginia de Gravelles| Charles de Gravelles]] of [[Lafayette]] and his wife, [[Charles and Virginia de Gravelles|Virginia de Gravelles]], organized on behalf of Republican nominee [[David C. Treen]], then of Metairie in Jefferson Parish. Treen, only the second Republican since [[Reconstruction]] to make a serious bid for governor, was defeated in that election cycle but won the governorship eight years later in 1979. She later worked to elect William Henson Moore, of [[Baton Rouge]] and [[Bob Livingston]] of suburban New Orleans to the [[United States House of Representatives]]. Martinez was the founding president of the Lakefront Republican Women's Club and held membership in similar organizations in New Orleans and Kenner. She was a member of the Capitol Hill Club in Washington and the City Club in New Orleans. In addition, she was a former vice president of the Louisiana Federation of Republican Women, a political support group founded in 1953. She was the treasurer of the [[Republican National Convention]]s which met in 1980 in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], and in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]] in 1984.<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 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 Hospital]] in [[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]].  She is interred at the Lake Lawn [[Mausoleum]] in New Orleans.<ref name=obit/>​