[1] During her teen years, Dolly met Antonino Martino "Marty" Sinatra, born in Lercara Friddi, who immigrated from Catania, Sicily.

[8] Dolly gave birth to Francis Albert Sinatra, the couple's only child, on December 12, 1915, in an upstairs tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey.

[12] The family was Roman Catholic,[13][14] but due to her son's injuries at birth, his baptism was delayed for several months.

[15] She used her knowledge of Italian dialects and fluent English to translate for immigrants during court proceedings, particularly those pertaining to requests for citizenship.

[8] She was the first immigrant woman to hold that position in her local third ward, where she reliably delivered as many as six hundred votes for Democratic candidates.

[19] Sinatra later recalled spending time at the bar, working on his homework and occasionally singing a song on top of the player piano for spare change.

[22] On January 6, 1977, Dolly Sinatra had invited friend Mrs. Anthony Carboni to join her in a private flight, provided by son Frank Sinatra, to come to Vegas for a show and gambling, but shortly after take-off from Palm Springs Municipal Airport, the Gates Learjet 24 crashed into a 10,000-foot (3,048-meter) snowy mountaintop ridge, in the eastern portion of the San Gorgonio Wilderness, killing all aboard.

[27] Because of darkness, freezing temperatures, and rugged terrain at the crash site, it took days for authorities to recover all the bodies.