Debra Anne Dillman

Debra Anne Dillman was born in New Haven Connecticut on July 16th 1957 to Marion Louise Simmons Dillman and Robert Emanuel Dillman. Debbie was the third of 4 girls, Cathy Ann (who passed as an infant), Donna June and Denise Lynette. They lived in West Haven CT where as a child Debbie loved to play piano, sing and perform theatrically with her family. She loved to create, which she learned from her mother and in creation, to perform from her father. During her attendance to West Haven High School she was able to travel to Italy with her choir group and mother to sing for the Pope. At 18 she left home and traveled to Provo UT to attend college at BYU where she earned her Associate of Arts. Upon returning home she met and married Frank Charles Martinez IV; in which she found her greatest vocation, Debbie became a mother. She became a mother to three children, her greatest loves, Francis Carlos Martinez V, DeAnne Marissa Martinez and Danielle MariElena Martinez, all born in different locales. Debbie and her family eventually settled in Orem UT where she found joy in teaching her children, serving her friends and creating all through music, sewing, baking, cooking, gardening, decorating, writing poems and participating in theatre. Debbie continued this way as they moved throughout Northern Utah. When she chose to work, outside the home, Debbie used her love for mathematics and prepared taxes with H&R Block. After Debbie and Frank split in 2001, she purchased her home in Ogden UT. In that home she continued to create and sing with her nephews, niece, children and other family and loved ones. Debbie left this world and returned to her mother, father, sister (Cathy Ann) and all those she loved and lost on March 8th 2026 after a very short battle with cancer.