Lois remembers Edna for her books and homemaking skills. Edna attended the University of Minnesota for three years after Eden Valley high school. She married Thomas Tintes and they lived on the Tintes farm two miles east of Eden Valley until 1955 when they moved into town. After Thomas's death in 1964, she lived in the home where she lived with her parents and siblings 1919-1928.
Edna was quite interested in the family history and was the original one to type up all the letters from James Martin and others in Canada to William J. Martin in Minnesota.