- Grandma Duck
DisneyChar
name =Grandma Duck (Elvira Coot)
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first appearance ="Donald Duck " Sunday newspaper strip, 1943 (first appearance in person)
created by =Bob Karp andAl Taliaferro
voiced by =June Foray
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relatives =Humperdink Duck (husband, deceased),Clinton Coot (father),Casey Coot (brother),Quackmore Duck (son),Daphne Duck (daughter),Eider Duck (son),Donald Duck (grandson),Gladstone Gander (grandson),Fethry Duck (grandson),Della Thelma Duck , nicknamed "Dumbella," (grandaughter),Gus Goose (grand nephew), Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck (great grandsons)
friends =Scrooge McDuck ,Daisy Duck ,Gyro Gearloose
rivals =Elvira "Grandma Duck" Coot is a
fictional character who appears inWalt Disney 's variouscomic book s. She is the grandmother ofDonald Duck andGladstone Gander , as well as theDuck family matriarch . In most stories, she is simply referred to as Grandma Duck. Grandma Duck was introduced to the Disney comic universe byAl Taliaferro in the newspapercomic strips - as a picture in 1940, in person in 1943. Taliaferro found inspiration for her in his ownmother-in-law , Donnie M. Wheaton.According to
Keno Don Rosa , Grandma was born around 1855. Later, she marriedHumperdink Duck , and they had three children namedQuackmore Duck (Donald Duck 's father),Daphne Duck (Gladstone Gander 's mother) andEider Duck . So fond were Elvira and Humperdink of their children that they called themselves "Ma and Pa Duck" (again, according to Don Rosa). Quackmore marriedHortense McDuck , and they were the parents ofDella Duck andDonald Duck . When Hortense took off for parts unknown, it fell upon "Ma" Duck (now "Grandma" Duck) to raise Donald. When Della gave up on her difficult children,Huey, Dewey, and Louie , Grandma helped Donald to raise them. She shares the credit with theJunior Woodchucks for the trio evolving from little hellions to model children.Grandma's grandnephew
Gus Goose is her farmhand and lives on the farm. However, he is very lazy and does not work much. In some stories, especially older ones, Grandma Duck also gets help fromGus and Jaq , the two mice from "Cinderella".Grandma's farm is the center of the
Duck family 's annual holiday gatherings, with said gatherings usually arranged by her. These are always merry and warm and interesting occasions. Grandma Elvira is a great cook, and once won a medal for her cherry pie.She is depicted as driving a
Detroit Electric automobile . She refuses to acquire any modern gadgetry, and does not even watch TV.In "
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck " byDon Rosa , it is shown that her father isClinton Coot , her mother isGertrude Gadwall , her grandfather isCornelius Coot , and her brother isCasey Coot . In older Italian stories (includingMarco Rota 's "From Egg to Duck"), she is sometimes shown asScrooge McDuck 's sister, but this tradition is no longer alive. Occasionally they have also been portrayed as being cousins, another now rarely enforced tradition. The "truth" is that Scrooge is the brother of Elvira's daughter-in-law. For this relationship there is no word in theEnglish language . According toDon Rosa 's unofficial timelines, Grandma Duck died in 1970, aged 115.Grandma made her animated debut in the 1960 "
Wonderful World of Color " episode "This is Your Life, Donald Duck", where she was voiced byJune Foray . The episode depicted her great difficulty in raising Donald, a strong-willed and ill-tempered duckling from the moment he was hatched. She also made a non-speaking cameo in "Mickey's Christmas Carol ". Surprisingly, she never made an appearance on "DuckTales ".External links
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