Edna Whitley was born on March 4, 1919 to aprents Gus. and Fannie Mae Smith Whitley in Center, Texas.  She had four sisters: Oma, Melissa, Bessie adn Cecil.  She graduated from Timpson High School in 1937.  According to the 1940 she was working as a waitress in a drugstore in Harris County.  Edna died on October 20, 1995 at the age of 76 in Texas.