Ronnie Claire Edwards

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Ronnie Claire Edwards
Born February 9, 1933 (1933-02-09) (age 75)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Occupation Actress -- Corabeth Godsey on The Waltons; Aunt Dolly on Boone

Ronnie Claire Edwards (born February 9, 1933) is an American actress.

Edwards was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She has been acting professionally since 1963 and is best known for the role of the bossy "Corabeth Walton Godsey", wife of storekeeper Ike Godsey played by Joe Conley, in the CBS television series The Waltons, created by the sentimental author Earl Hamner, Jr. She also appeared as Charlene Frazier Stillfield's mother, Ione Frazier, in an episode of CBS's Designing Women.

Edwards played Aunt Dolly in Hamner's unsuccessful series Boone, which aired on NBC 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.

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  • Ronnie Claire Edwards, The Knife Thrower's Assistant: Memoirs of a Human Target, Hawk Publishing Group, (October 2000), ISBN-13: 978-1930709164

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