SALUDA - Services for Helen Etheredge Chieri , 88, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at her family home in Saluda with graveside service to follow in Red Bank Baptist Church cemetery of Saluda. The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. until the funeral service begins at 2 p.m. Ramey Funeral Home is in charge. Memorials. may be made to Red Bank Baptist Church or to the Saluda Historical Society.
Mrs. Chieri died Monday, February 4 2002 in Saluda Nursing Center. Born June 28, 1913, she was the oldest child of Rodney Hammond and Ora Hester Padget Etheredge. She was educated at Winthrop and then was invited by her aunt to come to Italy as a tutor to her aunt's two young sons. While in Italy, Helen met her future husband, Pericle Chieri , whom she married in Saluda in 1938.
Dr. Chieri became a professor of engineering at Louisiana State University in Lafayette, La. and he and Mrs. Chieri lived most of their lives there. Mrs. Chieri , always an avid gardener, became an accredited flower show judge and was very active in garden club and civic work in her community. She worked actively to promote protection of the environment and to increase the growing, showing and sharing of all kinds of flowers.
Mrs. Chieri and her husband continued throughout their marriage of more than 50 years to travel to Italy to visit his family and friends and to tour other parts of Europe. They amassed a substantial library of books on many subjects, including art, gardening and Victorian antiques, china and silverplate, in which Mrs. Chieri was especially interested.
Mrs. Chieri was also a certified Red Cross swimming instructor and this was one of the great joys of her life. She came home to Saluda every summer for more than 20 years to run the swimming program at the Saluda Jaycee swimming pool. She organized and taught swimming classes on all levels, water safety, livesaving, as well as synchronized swimming and water ballet. During the same time, she went every summer to Ecole Champlain, a French-speaking camp in Vermont, where she also ran the swimming program for more than 20 years. She later moved her summer operations to Camp Rockbrook in Brevard, N.C. where she headed her last Red Cross swimming program and lived as a cabin counselor with groups of six-year-olds. After more than 20 summers in Brevard, she ended her camp experience in the mid 80's when she was in her 70's.
Staying in Saluda for several weeks each year on either side of her camp experience had kept her in close touch with family, friends and church in her home town. When her health began to weaken, both she and her husband moved back to Saluda to be near the family of her sister, Carolina. She lived with her sister until her declining health required assisted living and then nursing home care.
Surviving are her nieces, Helen Etheredge Hembel and Caroline Hembel Brazil; nephews, Henry Hammond Hembel; eight great-nieces and nephews; four great-great-nieces and nephews. Mrs. Chieri was predeceased by her parents, her husband, her brother, Alvin Etheredge and her sister, Caroline Etheredge Hembel.
State, The (Columbia, SC)
Date: February 8, 2002
Mrs. Chieri died Monday, February 4 2002 in Saluda Nursing Center. Born June 28, 1913, she was the oldest child of Rodney Hammond and Ora Hester Padget Etheredge. She was educated at Winthrop and then was invited by her aunt to come to Italy as a tutor to her aunt's two young sons. While in Italy, Helen met her future husband, Pericle Chieri , whom she married in Saluda in 1938.
Dr. Chieri became a professor of engineering at Louisiana State University in Lafayette, La. and he and Mrs. Chieri lived most of their lives there. Mrs. Chieri , always an avid gardener, became an accredited flower show judge and was very active in garden club and civic work in her community. She worked actively to promote protection of the environment and to increase the growing, showing and sharing of all kinds of flowers.
Mrs. Chieri and her husband continued throughout their marriage of more than 50 years to travel to Italy to visit his family and friends and to tour other parts of Europe. They amassed a substantial library of books on many subjects, including art, gardening and Victorian antiques, china and silverplate, in which Mrs. Chieri was especially interested.
Mrs. Chieri was also a certified Red Cross swimming instructor and this was one of the great joys of her life. She came home to Saluda every summer for more than 20 years to run the swimming program at the Saluda Jaycee swimming pool. She organized and taught swimming classes on all levels, water safety, livesaving, as well as synchronized swimming and water ballet. During the same time, she went every summer to Ecole Champlain, a French-speaking camp in Vermont, where she also ran the swimming program for more than 20 years. She later moved her summer operations to Camp Rockbrook in Brevard, N.C. where she headed her last Red Cross swimming program and lived as a cabin counselor with groups of six-year-olds. After more than 20 summers in Brevard, she ended her camp experience in the mid 80's when she was in her 70's.
Staying in Saluda for several weeks each year on either side of her camp experience had kept her in close touch with family, friends and church in her home town. When her health began to weaken, both she and her husband moved back to Saluda to be near the family of her sister, Carolina. She lived with her sister until her declining health required assisted living and then nursing home care.
Surviving are her nieces, Helen Etheredge Hembel and Caroline Hembel Brazil; nephews, Henry Hammond Hembel; eight great-nieces and nephews; four great-great-nieces and nephews. Mrs. Chieri was predeceased by her parents, her husband, her brother, Alvin Etheredge and her sister, Caroline Etheredge Hembel.
State, The (Columbia, SC)
Date: February 8, 2002
SALUDA - Services for Helen Etheredge Chieri , 88, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at her family home in Saluda with graveside service to follow in Red Bank Baptist Church cemetery of Saluda. The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. until the funeral service begins at 2 p.m. Ramey Funeral Home is in charge. Memorials. may be made to Red Bank Baptist Church or to the Saluda Historical Society.
Mrs. Chieri died Monday, February 4 2002 in Saluda Nursing Center. Born June 28, 1913, she was the oldest child of Rodney Hammond and Ora Hester Padget Etheredge. She was educated at Winthrop and then was invited by her aunt to come to Italy as a tutor to her aunt's two young sons. While in Italy, Helen met her future husband, Pericle Chieri , whom she married in Saluda in 1938.
Dr. Chieri became a professor of engineering at Louisiana State University in Lafayette, La. and he and Mrs. Chieri lived most of their lives there. Mrs. Chieri , always an avid gardener, became an accredited flower show judge and was very active in garden club and civic work in her community. She worked actively to promote protection of the environment and to increase the growing, showing and sharing of all kinds of flowers.
Mrs. Chieri and her husband continued throughout their marriage of more than 50 years to travel to Italy to visit his family and friends and to tour other parts of Europe. They amassed a substantial library of books on many subjects, including art, gardening and Victorian antiques, china and silverplate, in which Mrs. Chieri was especially interested.
Mrs. Chieri was also a certified Red Cross swimming instructor and this was one of the great joys of her life. She came home to Saluda every summer for more than 20 years to run the swimming program at the Saluda Jaycee swimming pool. She organized and taught swimming classes on all levels, water safety, livesaving, as well as synchronized swimming and water ballet. During the same time, she went every summer to Ecole Champlain, a French-speaking camp in Vermont, where she also ran the swimming program for more than 20 years. She later moved her summer operations to Camp Rockbrook in Brevard, N.C. where she headed her last Red Cross swimming program and lived as a cabin counselor with groups of six-year-olds. After more than 20 summers in Brevard, she ended her camp experience in the mid 80's when she was in her 70's.
Staying in Saluda for several weeks each year on either side of her camp experience had kept her in close touch with family, friends and church in her home town. When her health began to weaken, both she and her husband moved back to Saluda to be near the family of her sister, Carolina. She lived with her sister until her declining health required assisted living and then nursing home care.
Surviving are her nieces, Helen Etheredge Hembel and Caroline Hembel Brazil; nephews, Henry Hammond Hembel; eight great-nieces and nephews; four great-great-nieces and nephews. Mrs. Chieri was predeceased by her parents, her husband, her brother, Alvin Etheredge and her sister, Caroline Etheredge Hembel.
State, The (Columbia, SC)
Date: February 8, 2002
Mrs. Chieri died Monday, February 4 2002 in Saluda Nursing Center. Born June 28, 1913, she was the oldest child of Rodney Hammond and Ora Hester Padget Etheredge. She was educated at Winthrop and then was invited by her aunt to come to Italy as a tutor to her aunt's two young sons. While in Italy, Helen met her future husband, Pericle Chieri , whom she married in Saluda in 1938.
Dr. Chieri became a professor of engineering at Louisiana State University in Lafayette, La. and he and Mrs. Chieri lived most of their lives there. Mrs. Chieri , always an avid gardener, became an accredited flower show judge and was very active in garden club and civic work in her community. She worked actively to promote protection of the environment and to increase the growing, showing and sharing of all kinds of flowers.
Mrs. Chieri and her husband continued throughout their marriage of more than 50 years to travel to Italy to visit his family and friends and to tour other parts of Europe. They amassed a substantial library of books on many subjects, including art, gardening and Victorian antiques, china and silverplate, in which Mrs. Chieri was especially interested.
Mrs. Chieri was also a certified Red Cross swimming instructor and this was one of the great joys of her life. She came home to Saluda every summer for more than 20 years to run the swimming program at the Saluda Jaycee swimming pool. She organized and taught swimming classes on all levels, water safety, livesaving, as well as synchronized swimming and water ballet. During the same time, she went every summer to Ecole Champlain, a French-speaking camp in Vermont, where she also ran the swimming program for more than 20 years. She later moved her summer operations to Camp Rockbrook in Brevard, N.C. where she headed her last Red Cross swimming program and lived as a cabin counselor with groups of six-year-olds. After more than 20 summers in Brevard, she ended her camp experience in the mid 80's when she was in her 70's.
Staying in Saluda for several weeks each year on either side of her camp experience had kept her in close touch with family, friends and church in her home town. When her health began to weaken, both she and her husband moved back to Saluda to be near the family of her sister, Carolina. She lived with her sister until her declining health required assisted living and then nursing home care.
Surviving are her nieces, Helen Etheredge Hembel and Caroline Hembel Brazil; nephews, Henry Hammond Hembel; eight great-nieces and nephews; four great-great-nieces and nephews. Mrs. Chieri was predeceased by her parents, her husband, her brother, Alvin Etheredge and her sister, Caroline Etheredge Hembel.
State, The (Columbia, SC)
Date: February 8, 2002
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wife of Pericle Audriano Carlo Chieri, dau. of Rodney Hammond and Ora Hester Padget Etheredge
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