Martha Rofheart

27 M–19 J

Born Martha Jane Jones, May 27, 1917 in Louisville, Kentucky to Evan Jones and his wife the former Noreen Sorrell. Noreen died in the 1918 flu pandemic when Martha was a year and a half old; with her young father unable to care for her, she was raised by her paternal Grandparents, Owen Jones and his wife Elizabeth or Lizzy, who were of Welsh and Scottish extraction. She grew up in the Portland neighborhood of Louisville, surrounded by a large Upper Middle Class extended family, which was spread out along Portland Avenue and nearby streets. Her Great Grandfather, W.O. Jones (who had immigrated to America in 1857), and her Grandfather Evan Jones, were partners in a boiler works factory, C.J.Walton & Son, that employed some of the family, including her father Evan Jones. A short story, THE PEPPERMINTS, based upon those early days in Portland is available as a Kindle book on Amazon. While still in the first grade her Grandfather Owen would give her a quarter ($.25) for each poem she wrote; growing up she had several poems published in Louisville newspapers and magazines, and at the age of 10, she won a national one-act play contest. Martha Jane attended the Louisville Public Schools, before graduating at the age of fifteen from Louisville Girls High School. She won a scholarship to the University of Cincinnati's Drama School, the College-Conservatory of Music, which she attended for several years. Before she graduated, she wrote to Lynn Fontanne of the acting couple The Lunts, an

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