Eileen Pratt Cheney (1954-2010)

CHENEY, VUKELICH, HEGLAND, MUSSELMAN, HAMRICK

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 6/2/2010 at 09:58:52

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Tuesday, June 1, 2010.

Nov. 7, 1954-May 29, 2010

Eileen Pratt Cheney passed away Saturday, May 29, 2010, in her home in Ames following a long and courageous battle with metastatic breast cancer. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 3, at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2524 Hoover Ave., Ames. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 4, at the same location. Visitation also will be from 9 to 10 a.m. prior to the service.

Eileen was born in Brigham City, Utah, and grew up in Snowville, Utah; Ogden, Utah; and Boise, Idaho, where she met and married her husband, Joseph G. Cheney Jr. She was a member of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She and her husband were married in the Logan Utah Temple on Sept. 12, 1975. She resided with her husband and children in the Boise valley until 1987, when the family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, and in 1990 to Ames.

She is survived by her husband; four children, Janna (James) Vukelich, David (Lizz) Cheney, Brian (Chelsea) Cheney and Benjamin (Stacie) Cheney; five grandchildren, Saffi, Schafer, Violet, Ethan, and Gavin; and three sisters, Marie Hegland, Jean Musselman and Annie Hamrick.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Ed and Ada Pratt; and one brother she never knew, Noel.

She loved her family and everyone who stepped into her life’s circle. She radiated goodness and joy in her life with a smile and laugh that were contagious. She was a wonderful wife and mother, and had a deep loyalty and passion for her family, friends, neighbors and for everything good and lovely. Music was a very important part of her life. She taught piano lessons (and many other life’s lessons) for nearly 30 years to countless numbers of young children, teenagers and adults alike. She was a lady of dignity, gentleness and compassion, and God’s love flowed freely and easily through her to others. She will be remembered forever as someone who truly knew how to love, and she will be greatly missed.

Funeral services are being arranged by Adam’s Funeral Home. Online condolences may be sent to www.soderstrumadams.com.

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