Background
Edwards was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Edwards was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Foreign the Louisiana politician (1952-2016), see Ronnie Edwards. She is known for playing Corabeth Walton Godsey on the television show The Waltons. She has been acting professionally since 1963 and is best known for the role of the domineering Corabeth Walton Godsey, the wife of storekeeper Ike Godsey played by Joe Conley, in the Columbia Broadcasting System television series The Waltons, created by Earl Hamner, Junior.
She also appeared as Charlene Frazier Stillfield"s mother, Ione Frazier, in an episode of Columbia Broadcasting System"s Designing Women.
Edwards played Aunt Dolly in Hamner"s series Boone, which aired on National Broadcasting Company from 1983–1984. Her principal costars were Tom Byrd as Boone Sawyer, an aspiring singer, and Barry Corbin as Boone"s skeptical father, Merit Sawyer.
She also co-starred in the 1985 National Broadcasting Company series Sara opposite Geena Davis. Edwards also briefly appeared on an episode of Public Broadcasting Service"s Antiques Roadshow (2008) from Dallas, Texas, when she brought in for appraisal a chair formerly owned by P. T. Barnum.
She also appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Thine Own Self" and the 1999 remake of Inherit The Wind.