Vanessa was the aunt of Tegan Jovanka.
- You may be looking for the "daughter" of Aubrey Prior.
Biography
Vanessa was driving Tegan to Heathrow Airport on 28 February 1981 when the car had a flat tyre. While Tegan went for help, Vanessa was killed by the Tremas Master with his Tissue Compression Eliminator. (TV: Logopolis)
Later references
The presence of a photograph of her "Auntie" Vanessa in her cabin on Striker's yacht alerted Tegan that her hosts had been reading her mind and using that information to make her cabin more homely and comfortable, a clue to their true nature as Eternals. (TV: Enlightenment)
Vanessa once told Tegan to stop being a stewardess when it stopped being fun. Tegan applied this notion, citing it when she departed the Doctor after her encounter with the Daleks in London in 1984. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
Other information
It is unclear if Vanessa was the sister of Tegan's mother or her father. If she were Tegan's maternal aunt, she would have been the daughter of Andrew Verney. (TV: The Awakening)