Her mother died when Edna was only seven and after attending the North Side Town Hall School at the primary level, her father sent her to Jamaica's Knox College.
One cause she championed early in her first term in office was the call to end discrimination against women in the civil service in several respects, including the denial of maternity leave.
Government accepted the motion and the Family Support Unit was established away from police headquarters to handle all family-related matters.
In 2009 the former legislator and Speaker of the House was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 Queen Elizabeth II Birthday Honours for her contributions to politics in the Cayman Islands.
Edna M. Moyle, OBE, JP, 71 died on 21 May 2013 around noon surrounded by her family and friends at the Cayman Islands Hospital.