Martha Hollis Calhoun Wintner was born in Boston, Mass., to the somewhat unlikely but wonderful union of Helen Fordham Webster and Dr. John Alfred Calhoun — a meeting of North and South.
Martha was the oldest of four close siblings. She and her brother Jack and her two sisters Helen and Deane grew up together in Swarthmore, Pa., where their big home at 214 Elm Ave. became a center of neighborhood friendship, laughter and antics.
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