Editing Martha Raye (section)

==Early years==
Raye was born at St. James Hospital in Butte, Montana, as Margy Reed,<ref>[http://www.colonelmaggie.com/images/BirthCertificate.jpg ''Birth Certificate''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203181006/http://www.colonelmaggie.com/images/BirthCertificate.jpg |date=2022-02-03 }}, ColonelMaggie.com; accessed September 16, 2014.</ref><ref name=raye2>{{cite web|title=125 Montana Newsmakers: Martha Raye|url=http://www.greatfallstribune.com/multimedia/125newsmakers6/raye.html|work=Great Falls Tribune|author=Tribune staff|access-date=August 28, 2011}}</ref> the daughter of Irish immigrant Peter F. Reed Jr., and Maybelle Hazel (Hooper) Reed, who had been raised in Milwaukee and Montana.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19400227&id=dWYcAAAAIBAJ&pg=6898,4941726|title=The Milwaukee Sentinel|via=Google News Archive Search|website=News.google.com}}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Her parents were performing in a local [[vaudeville]] theatre as Reed and Hooper when their daughter was born.<ref>{{cite news|author=Lawrence Van Gelder|title=Martha Raye, 78, Singer and Comic Actress, Dies|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E3DD1E3CF933A15753C1A962958260|work=The New York Times|date=October 20, 1994|access-date=2008-01-17}}</ref>