Arline Lillian Avrick was born in 1928 as youngest of three children to Hyman and Nehama Avrick in Rock Island, Illinois where her father was a businessman and her parents active pillars of their cultural and economic community. From a young age Arline was drawn to intellectual and academic pursuits and - unusually, for a woman of her generation - a career in medicine, earning her bachelor's at Augustana and her MD at the University of Illinois. That career introduced her to her future husband, Dr. Malcolm M. Martin and together they operated a clinical and research practice for over forty years at Georgetown University Hospital, during which they co-authored studies, textbooks, and dozens of articles advancing the diagnosis and treatment of endocrinological illnesses and cared for hundreds of patients; some from infancy until parenthood. Arline’s interests extended to fine art, literature, classical music, opera, and travel and she was devoted to the flourishing of Jewish identity and culture. Together with her academic and professional accomplishments Arline raised a daughter, Jennifer, and two sons, Nicholas and Karl. Services entrusted to Sagel Bloomfield Danzansky Goldberg Funeral Care.