Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Cathy Gail McAdoo Wilheim died in Wichita, Kansas, on Wednesday, Dec. 23, at age 68, of complications from Parkinson s Disease and diabetes, exacerbated by Covid-19.
Born and raised in Nevada, Cathy was the valedictorian of her senior class at Nevada High School in 1970. After attending the University of Missouri for a year, she transferred to Princeton University, making her one of the first women to attend the Ivy League school.
She received her bachelor s degree from Princeton in 1975, having majored in English and having written as her required senior thesis a biography of her grandfather, Clarence McAdoo, a longtime Nevada resident who had died in 1963.