Overview
- Family statements and her obituary confirm she died on Friday, Dec. 19, following a cancer battle.
- Her obituary says she died peacefully at St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Edgewood, Kentucky, surrounded by loved ones.
- Clooney said, “My sister, Ada, was my hero,” adding she faced cancer with courage and humor.
- A funeral was held Monday, Dec. 22, with memorial donations requested for the Knoedler Memorial Library in Augusta, Kentucky.
- Zeidler was a longtime Augusta resident who taught elementary art, later worked as a bookkeeper, was a National Merit Scholar, and was predeceased by her husband, Norman, in 2004.