<P> Around the house, Edith usually ran everywhere she went, implicitly to please others without them having to wait . This included answering the doorbell or phone and running to the kitchen to get Archie a beer . </P> <P> In "The Saga of Cousin Oscar", Edith mentions she has two sisters, Helen and Gertrude . In "Lionel Steps Out," she mentions a brother, Harry . </P> <P> The character suffers from several physical and emotional traumas throughout the series . Edith goes through menopause in the second season ("Edith's Problem"), discovers a lump in her breast just before Christmas in the fourth season ("Edith's Christmas Story"), is nearly raped on her 50th birthday in the eighth season ("Edith's 50th Birthday") and in season nine briefly contracts laryngitis ("A Night at the PTA") and develops phlebitis in the show's final episode ("Too Good Edith"). The first episode of the second season of Archie Bunker's Place ("Archie Alone") reveals that Edith died as result of a stroke . </P> <P> Beneath his crusty, irascible exterior, Archie is intensely protective of Edith and becomes upset at even the thought of losing her . In the episode "Too Good Edith," the 209th and final episode of All in the Family, Edith becomes seriously ill while frantically helping Archie cook Irish dinners for a St. Patrick's Day celebration at the bar . She had been suffering from phlebitis and didn't tell Archie, but he finds out anyway and is upset that she had hidden it from him . </P>

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