Ada Ziegler Good, 93

August 31, 2019

Ada Ziegler Good, born November 17, 1925 passed away on Saturday, August 31, 2019 at the Mennonite Home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Monroe Good, her husband precedes her in death, shortly before they would have celebrated 74 years of marriage on June 2, 2019. She was born in Richland, Lebanon County to the late Abraham and Rhoda Keller Ziegler.

Attending Millersville State Teachers College, she graduated in 1946, then taught for 2 years in two one room schools in the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania area before attending, with her husband Eastern Baptist Seminary in Philadelphia in 1949 and Bethany Seminary in Chicago, Illinois in 1951. The family moved to Nigeria with the Church of the Brethren Mission in 1952. Ada taught teachers to teach English and supervised their teaching in the Mission schools. Upon returning from Nigeria in 1964, she taught at Manheim Jr. High School for a year before moving to Baltimore, Maryland. From 1965 thru 1980, she taught English and Reading at Stemmers Run Jr. High and then Dundalk Jr. High for 13 years. She was then in charge of a Tutorial after school program at Johns Hopkins University for 2 years. While living in Baltimore she earned a Masters equivalent from Johns Hopkins and Loyola University. Returning to Pennsylvania in 1980 she was a reading specialist for the Intermediate Unit #11 at McVeytown. Monroe and Ada returned to Nigeria from 1984 to 1988 where she taught English at Kulp Bible College. When they came back to Pennsylvania in 1988 to the Lancaster area, she worked in Millersville University’s English as a Second Language program teacher at Lancaster Middle School and McCaskey High School till 1996. She and her husband were members of the Alpha Omega Church of the Brethren where she also taught English classes. In 2004, after 3 short term work camp teaching assignments in Nigeria, she and Monroe joined Maranatha Fellowship at Lancaster Church of the Brethren, where they were members.

Ada is survived by her children, Ronald (Augusta Jackson) Good, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, David (Lois Baldwin) Good, North Manchester, Indiana, Deborah (Good) and Larry Gantz, Holtwood, Pennsylvania, and Philip (Kathy Kelly) Good, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania; numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews; her two brothers, Earl (wife Vivian) Ziegler and Glen Ziegler; her two sisters, Verna Kline and Lena (husband Irvin)
Krieder; and her sister in-law Grace (Cox) Ziegler. Ada was preceded in death by her two brothers, Lee Ziegler, and Victor (husband of Grace); her sister, Mae (Ziegler) Patches; her daughter in-law, Belinda (Kline) Good; her brothers-in-law, Wayne Patches (husband of Mae) and Norman Kline (husband of Verna); and her sister-in-law, Reba Ziegler (wife of Glen).

A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on November 17, 2019 at the Lancaster Church of the Brethren, 1601 Sunset Ave., Lancaster, PA. Visitation with the family will follow the service during a reception and greeting time in the Family Life Center of the church. Memorial contributions in Ada’s memory may be offered to Emergency Disaster Fund, Church of the Brethren, 1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120 with checks earmarked Nigeria Crisis Fund.