Biography
Lena Edwards was born in Washington, D.C., on the Roman Catholic feast day of the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. She was the daughter of dentist and oral surgeon Thomas Edwards and Marie Coakley Edwards, a homemaker.
Edwards was valedictorian of her class at Washington's Dunbar High School in 1917, completed undergraduate studies at Howard University in three years, and graduated from Howard University Medical School in 1924. She and Keith Madison, a fellow student at the medical school, were married following their graduation. They had six children together between 1925 and 1939. She separated from Madison in 1947.
Edwards died in 1986 in Lakewood, New Jersey.
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