Ada was a charter member of the Clio Club of Roselle. She was very interested in music and belonged to the Roselle Music Club. She sang in her church choir and also in various other local choirs in Elizabeth, Roselle and Westfield, where she was a member of the Handel Choir of Westfield. She lived with her parents and later with her sister Nellie West Bailey. She never married, although she had a very good friend, Edwin (Eddie) Marsh, who often went places with her, including Atlantis Island, the Bailey summer home in the Thousand Islands. Eddie was a choral director in New York City. Ada took very good care of her parents, accompanying them on trips and enabling them to lead a life that they would not have been able to lead on their own in their later years.

West family plot, Lawn Plot 2, Lot 163, Evergreen Cemetery, Hillside, NJ.