Memorial contributions may be made to: Humane Society of the United States, 1624 Metropolitan Circle, Tallahassee, FL 32308.

Mrs. Cheetham was a native of Onieda, New York and moved to Woodville in July after many years in Eustis, Florida. She was retired as a security officer for Village on the Green Retirement Community in Altamonte Springs, and was a member of St. Teresa Episcopal Church in Crawfordville and St. Edward's Episcopal Church in Mt. Dora.

Survivors include a son Richard Mayhew of Springfield, TN; four daughters, Katherine McKee and Sandra Howard, both of Tallahassee, Cynthia Whitehead of Ithaca, NY and Linda Johnson of Mallory, NY; twenty grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death in 2002 by her husband Richard Cheetham, and in 2001 by her daughter Frances Thomas.