She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Esther & John Rippeth and Grace & Clarence Muir, her dad, Robert “Bob” Amodei, her brother, John L. Rippeth, and her aunt, Alice Owen.
Survivors include her husband, Troy Cartee of Pulaski, her mother Kathleen Amodei of Pulaski, her son, John King of Pulaski, her aunts, Judy Taylor of Indiana, Flo Calhoun of Ohio, and Clarise Cronin of West Virginia, and numerous nieces and nephews.