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===Grandma Duck===
'''Elvira''' "'''Grandma'''" '''Duck''' (née '''Coot''',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://inducks.org/story.php?c=D+11221|title=Donald Duck Family Tree|website=inducks.org|access-date=2016-09-20}}</ref> October<ref name=":0" /> c. 1855) is Donald's paternal grandmother and the Duck family [[matriarch]]. In most stories, she is simply referred to as "Grandma Duck". She was introduced to the Disney comic universe by [[Al Taliaferro]] and [[Bob Karp]] in the ''Donald Duck'' newspaper [[comic strip]], first in a picture on the wall in the August 11, 1940, Sunday page, and then as a full-fledged character in the strip on Monday, September 27, 1943.<ref name=toonopedia-grandma>[http://toonopedia.com/grandmad.htm Grandma Duck] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]. [https://archive.today/20240527224325/https://www.webcitation.org/6k8PG6Cyc?url=http://toonopedia.com/grandmad.htm Archived] from the original on August 29, 2016.</ref> Taliaferro found inspiration for her in his own [[mother-in-law]], Donnie M. Wheaton. Depending on the writer, Grandma Duck has had various given names over the years. In a story by Riley Thomson from 1950, she was named "Elviry"<ref name=":0"/> and in a story from 1953 she was given the name "Abigail".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+121-04|title=Grandma Duck|website=inducks.org|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref> Don Rosa later gave her the name "Elvira" in his comic books series ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]''.

According to artist/writer [[Don Rosa]], Grandma was born around 1855. In the comic strips by Taliaferro and Karp, it is mentioned that in her youth she was a [[American pioneer|pioneer]] in the American migration to the west, riding a [[covered wagon]] and participating in many [[American Indian Wars|Indian Wars]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://inducks.org/story.php?c=YD+43-12-11|title=Donald Duck (1943)|website=inducks.org|access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://inducks.org/story.php?c=YD+51-01-19|title=Donald Duck (1951)|website=inducks.org|access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref> Later, she married Humperdink Duck, and they had three children named [[Quackmore Duck|Quackmore]] (Donald's father), [[Daphne Duck|Daphne]] (Gladstone's mother) and [[Eider Duck (Disney)|Eider]] (Fethry's father in the non-Barks duck universe). Grandma Duck helped to raise her great-grandsons, [[Huey, Dewey, and Louie|Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck]] (her daughter-in-law Hortense's grandsons and granddaughter Della's sons). In most comic book stories, as well as other media that handles [[Donald Duck]]'s childhood, it was Grandma Duck who filled the role of Donald's caretaker.

Grandma made her animated debut in the 1960 ''[[Wonderful World of Color]]'' episode ''This is Your Life, Donald Duck'', where she was voiced by [[June 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 brief appearance in ''[[Sport Goofy in Soccermania]]'' she was now voiced by [[Russi Taylor]], a non-speaking cameo in ''[[Mickey's Christmas Carol]]'', and can be spotted in the background of the ''[[DuckTales (1987 TV series)|DuckTales]]'' episode ''Horse Scents''.