Rosemary Clooney died about two years ago. She was George's aunt. Rosemary worked in the Stevenson and Kennedy campaigns when she was still very young.
Biography for Rosemary Clooney
Height
5' 6"
She was the daughter of Andrew and Frances Clooney and grew up in Maysville, Kentucky, where she and her sister Betty used to sing in her grandfather's election mayoral election campaigns, which he won three times. She made her singing debut on a Cincinnati Radio station WLW in 1941 at 13. On WLW she worked with band leader Barney Rapp, who had also worked with singers Doris Day and Andy Williams at the same station. She attended high school at Our Lady of Mercy in Cincinnati. In 1946 she appeared with her sister in Atlantic City, New Jersey at the Steel Pier with Tony Pastor's band. In 1949 she went solo and later appeared in White Christmas co-starring opposite Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. Her first big hit was "Come On A My House" in 1951. She married actor José Ferrer in the 1950s and she had five children between 1955 and 1960. During her tempestous marriage to Ferrer she had a nervous breakdown in 1968 but went on to resume her career in 1976. Her life was dramatized in the 1982 TV Movie, 'Rosie', which starred Clint Eastwood's ex-girlfriend Sondra Locke.
Her son Gabriel is married to singer Debbie Boone, daughter of the 50s pop singer Pat Boone. Her brother, Nick, is an ABC news anchor in Cincinnati. She was standing in the Los Angeles hotel with Rosie Grier when Robert Kennedy was assassinated in the hotel kitchen in 1968 after she had participated in his campaign rally. Her top hits include "Hey There" in 1954, "Tenderly," "This Ole House" and "Half As Much" in 1952.