Edna Frost, nee Newbold, was born on the family's wheat and sheep farm near Wauraltee on Yorke Peninsula. Her father was also a lay preacher in the Methodist Church and often was away all day on Sunday travelling between services. Edna was the fourth of five boisterous children; a sixth, her oldest sister, having been adopted by Edna's father before this, his second marriage. In the latter stages of her schooling Edna, like her siblings, went to boarding school in Adelaide and she did not enjoy the experience. In 1920, four years after he had suffered a stroke, Edna's father died and Edna left school to help her mother and brother with the home and farm. Three years later, when her brother married, Edna, her mother and youngest sister moved to live near an uncle in Salisbury. Edna attended Muirden College and worked briefly for a 'so-called solicitor' and then with the Co-op Building Society until her marriage to a commercial traveller in 1929. She had one son.

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