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Dina Mergeron (formerly Abbott) is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the...

Dina Mergeron (formerly Abbott) is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. She was played by actress Marla Adams from 1983 to 1986 on contract. She returned for a guest appearance in 1991, 1996 and 2008. Dina was the first wife of John Abbott. She is the mother of Jack (Peter Bergman); Ashley (Eileen Davidson) (her father was Brent Davis); and Traci Abbott (Beth Maitland). She is the grandmother of Jack's sons, Keemo (Philip Moon) and Kyle (Seth Stern); Ashley's daughter, Abby (Hayley Erin); and Traci's daughter, Colleen Carlton (Tammin Sursok). Dina came from a professional upper-class society of Genoa City. It has been mentioned in many past conversations that she and Katherine Chancellor (Jeanne Cooper) were very good friends. A prime example came when they were having tea at the Chancellor Estate and remembered the day Dina and John asked Katherine to be Ashley's godmother a few days after she was born. It was revealed that it was Katherine who gave Ashley the middle name of Suzanne as a tribute to a former close friend of theirs in high school who had died because she was such a "beauty." It has also been comically noted over the years that