Martha Raye Has Surgery for Gangrene

Entertainer Martha Raye will go home as early as Monday after surgery to amputate a toe and bypass blocked veins in her leg, a hospital spokesman said Saturday.

Raye, 77, underwent the surgery Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been admitted because of poor circulation in the leg, said hospital spokesman Ron Wise.

Raye’s husband, Mark Harris, said late Friday that doctors removed the third toe on her left foot because gangrene had set in.

Harris, 44, quoted doctors as saying that Raye had only three months to live.

Wise said he was unaware of doctors making any such statements about Raye.