Louise Ambuel remembers her this way in Letters via Chinook:

All of the country school teachers during my childhood were women and each put her on stamp on whatever event occurred.  Miss Leamon was the teacher when I was in first grade and I do not remember much about her tenure except that I must have liked her.  For Christmas that year I received from somewhere a long legged cloth doll of the sort then popular as a pajama bag to add class when displayed on one’s bed.  I guess I didn’t care too much for the doll, and the family seemed to think it was not all that appropriate for a child of six, so they suggested I give it to Madeline, instead I voted to give it to Miss Leamon.  (Louise was born in 1921). 

Edras was born to Cora Carpenter and Henry Leamon in 1905 in Hannibal, Missouri. Edras' mother died when she was ten, leaving behind Edras and her brother Henry C. Leamon. The August 29, 1919 Hannibal Courier-Post reports that the children visited their father Henry Leamon while living in St. Louis, where they attended Soldan High School.

The 1920 census shows Edras living at the St Louis Christian Orphans Home as a "boarder" - a distinction from the "orphans" also listed as living there, under the superintendency of Betty R. Brown. More than 100 children were living at the orphanage at the time of the census.

Edras received her education from the Cape Girardeau Teachers College in 1924 - 1925. Her first job teaching was at a high school in Wardell, Missouri for the 1925/26 school year. Following her teaching engagement at Irion School, she taught at Coalwood (1928).

In 1929 Edras married Austin Giles "Buster" Norman in Miles City. By 1935 she had moved to Denver and the couple was divorced in 1938. Little is known about Edras other than the hardship she must have faced. We can only hope she found love in her second husband Charles Masten and his daughter, whom she adopted, in Denver.