Maria Tinney is also known as Maria Tinney Dagit. I find her place in the public story clearest through her mother, Judy Lewis, rather than through the professions sometimes attached to unrelated women with the same name. Maria is Judy’s daughter with Joseph Tinney, and through Judy she is the granddaughter of actors Loretta Young and Clark Gable.
Family accounts commonly place Maria’s birth on November 16, 1959, although that date is less firmly documented than her parentage. Her adult household includes husband Daniel Dagit and sons Michael and Gregory. She has remained a comparatively private person within a family history that drew considerable attention.
Judy Lewis and Joseph Tinney
Judy Lewis was born in 1935 and became an actress, writer, and later a counselor working with families and children. Her marriage to Joseph, also called Joe, Tinney began in 1958. Maria was their child. The couple divorced in 1972.
Judy’s acting work, clinical qualifications, and memoir belong to the mother. They do not establish that Maria followed her into the same professions. A family biography can describe the connection without creating an inherited résumé.
Joe Tinney is identified as Maria’s father in biographical accounts of the family. The supplied material does not provide a full independent profile of his working life. His relationship to Judy and Maria is the concrete part of the story, and it is enough to locate him correctly in the family tree.
Loretta Young and Clark Gable
Loretta Young, born in 1913, was Maria’s maternal grandmother. Clark Gable, born in 1901, was her biological maternal grandfather through Judy. Judy’s parentage became widely discussed through her memoir Uncommon Knowledge and later family accounts.
The grandmother relationship is straightforward, but the public history around Judy’s early identity was more complicated. Loretta presented her as an adopted child, while Judy later identified Gable as her biological father.
Maria belongs to the next generation. She was not the child whose parentage was concealed; that was Judy. I find this distinction necessary because stories about the famous actors sometimes collapse mother and daughter into the same biographical episode. Judy was their daughter, and Maria is their granddaughter.
The Older Family Branches
Maria’s great grandparents through Gable were William Henry Gable and Adeline Hershelman. Through Loretta, the older family account names John Earle Young and Gladys Young, with variants of Gladys’s maiden and family names appearing in genealogical summaries. These names extend the ancestry but do not alter the immediate relationship to Judy.
Judy had maternal half brothers Christopher Lewis and Peter Lewis, the sons of Loretta and Tom Lewis. She also had a paternal half brother, John Clark Gable, through her biological father. They are Maria’s uncles through Judy’s sibling relationships, not Maria’s own siblings.
I see the Lewis and Gable surnames as different branches around the same mother daughter connection. A surname alone cannot settle the relationship. Judy’s use of Lewis and Maria’s use of Tinney or Dagit reflect their own family histories, while the biological line remains clear through the named parents.
Daniel Dagit and Two Sons
Maria married Daniel, commonly called Dan, Dagit. Genealogical accounts place their marriage around April 1986, though the exact date is less firmly established than the relationship itself. The Dagit name appears in public notices identifying her later adult family.
Their sons are Michael Dagit and Gregory Dagit, also called Greg. Some family summaries give approximate birth years of 1989 and 1994.
Michael and Gregory were Judy’s grandsons and Loretta and Gable’s great grandsons. That generational placement is useful because the family story often repeats famous names while giving less attention to descendants. The sons belong to Maria and Dan’s household, with their own adult lives beyond what is described here.
Announcing Judy’s Death
Judy died on November 25, 2011, at 76. Maria confirmed her mother’s death for public reporting. That is one of the clearest direct public actions associated with Maria’s name, alongside the family relationships recorded in the notices that followed.
I find it a sober point of visibility. Maria was not launching an entertainment career when she appeared in those accounts. She was speaking as a daughter after a loss. The event connected her name to Judy’s long public history without making Maria the subject of an independent celebrity profile.
Loretta had died in 2000 and Gable in 1960. The dates show that Maria’s childhood and adult life extended well beyond the era in which both grandparents were alive.
A Private Profile and Unrelated Namesakes
Public listings exist for other women named Maria Tinney, including a business owner associated with an eyelash company. The supplied account does not conclusively connect that professional listing to Maria Tinney Dagit. The name match does not establish a career claim.
The same care applies to social accounts and professional records for Michael or Gregory Dagit. Names can identify a possibility without proving that two profiles describe the same person. Maria’s established account remains family based, with no verified personal net worth or major independent professional award list.
Her place in the lineage is nevertheless substantial and specific. She connects Judy’s story with Dan and their sons, carrying the family into another generation. I find that connection more accurate than a guessed occupation, an assumed inheritance, or a new version of the old Hollywood narrative.
FAQ
Who are Maria Tinney’s parents?
Her parents are Judy Lewis and Joseph Tinney, also called Joe. Judy was an actress, memoirist, and later a family and child counselor. The parents married in 1958 and divorced in 1972.
How is Maria Tinney related to Clark Gable?
Maria is Gable’s biological granddaughter through Judy Lewis. Loretta Young was Judy’s mother and Maria’s grandmother. Maria’s sons are part of the next descendant generation.
Who are Maria Tinney’s husband and children?
Her husband is Daniel Dagit, commonly called Dan. Their sons are Michael and Gregory Dagit. Maria therefore also appears in public family accounts under the name Maria Tinney Dagit.
