When Edmea Affonso de Alcântara was born on 6 September 1906, in São João de Petropolis, Santa Teresa, Espirito Santo, Brazil, her father, Antônio Afonso de Alcântara, was 37 and her mother, Victoria Galimberti, was 26. She married Noe Gomes Ramalho in 1925, in Espirito Santo, Brazil. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 4 August 1991, in Macaé, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the age of 84.