When Mabel Edna Edmunds was born on 6 June 1893, in Carleton Place, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, her father, Norman George Edmunds, was 24 and her mother, Lydia Jane Corr, was 27. She married John Charles Foss on 29 March 1916, in Carleton Place, Lanark, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Lanark, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 26 June 1953, at the age of 60.