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Edna Wilkins Ramsay 1986-1988
Marital Status: Dan Ramsay
Children: Max, Tom and Madge
Occupation: Retired

Kind and caring, Edna Wilkins married the pig-headed and fussy Dan Ramsay after they finished school. They had three children - Max, Tom and Madge - but were forced to leave Erinsborough when Dan was made redundant.

Moving to Brisbane, Edna felt at home were she made good friends with the locals. She joined local committees and clubs, and helped in all activities in the community. Initially, it looked like she would see all her children marry good partners - Max met a beautiful Italian and Tom married a local nurse. But above all, Madge was dating Harold Bishop, who Edna - and even Dan - adored. But Madge shocked her parents by marrying the philandering Fred Mitchell. The marriage proved to be a volatile one, and just as Edna had feared, ended in divorce, forcing Madge to return to Erinsborough to start afresh.

When Edna caught Dan flirting with Rosie Jacobs at the bowling club, she threw him out, finally reaching the end of her tether with Dan's eye for the ladies throughout their marriage. Edna decided to file for divorce, but was shocked when she discovered the marriage had never been legal because Dan had never filed their wedding certificate. Edna followed him to Erinsborough with the news, and Dan desperately struggled to assure her it was a mistake, and he had never intended not to file the certificate. After Madge enlisted Clive Gibbons' 'Gift of the Gab' service to reunite her parents, the couple married officially before returning to Queensland.

Edna was thrilled when Madge finally settled down with Harold the following year, after he had moved to Erinsborough and started seeing Madge again, eventually becoming engaged. And Edna proved that she could live up to the famously stern Ramsay name when she pulled Harold aside before the wedding ceremony and gave him a firm warning to look after her girl - or deal with her wrath.

Biography by Moe

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