Claudia Martin(1944-2001)

Claudia Martin was the daughter of Dean Martin and his first wife, Betty MacDonald. One of seven children, she was born in Ridley Park, PA, but spent her childhood in southern California. She did follow her father into show business, appearing on such television programs as The Donna Reed Show (1958) and My Three Sons (1960). She also appeared in a few films. She had a daughter, Jesse, with the late Kiel Martin, a star on the television series, Hill Street Blues (1981). From 1978 until her death in 2001, she and her husband, Jim Roberts, lived in Reno where they ran a printing business.