- She was a vocalist with the Glenn Miller Band.
- She had caught COVID-19 in the days leading up to her death.
- 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 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.
- Graduated from New Utrecht High School, Brooklyn, New York in 1939.
- Vocalist with the orchestras of Claude Thornhill, Harry James and Glenn Miller.
- 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.
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