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Samuel Milton Cheney

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Samuel Milton Cheney

Birth
Gila County, Arizona, USA
Death
19 Jan 1965 (aged 76)
Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, Idaho, USA
Burial
Gooding, Gooding County, Idaho, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.9306824, Longitude: -114.7021732
Plot
Sec. 3, Row 8, Sp 3
Memorial ID
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Twin Falls Times News
1965-01-20
page 2

DEATH TAKES EX-GOODING MAN AT T.F.
Samuel M. Cheney, 76, route 1, Twin Falls, formerly of Gooding died Tuesday morning in Magic Valley Memorial Hospital of a long illness.

He was born June 17, 1888, in Tonto Basin, Ariz., and moved with his parents from Arizona to Fairview, Utah in 1893.

He married Anna Maude Staley at Coalville, Utah, Feb. 12, 1910. They moved to Buhl in 1911 where he homesteaded until 1915, when they moved to Upton, Utah, where he was engaged as a postman, farmed and mined. They moved to Border, Wyo., in 1920. He was engaged in the sheep and cattle industry in Wyoming until he and his wife moved to Gooding in 1935. She died Oct. 31, 1954.

In 1955 he moved to Twin Falls where he married Esther Williams the same year. She died Nov. 26, 1960.

On July 2, 1961 he married Lillian Cheney in Elko, Nev.

Mr. Cheney was a member of the Twin Falls LDS second ward. He was a member of the high priests quorum of the Twin Falls stake.

Survivors include his widow, Twin Falls; five sons, M. Staley Cheney, Willis Cheney and Victor Cheney, all Gooding; Loren Keith Cheney, logan and Dale Cheney, Caldwell; a daughter, Mrs. James [Halley] Spencer, Twin Falls: a step-son, LeRoy Burke, Gulfport, Miss.; three step-daughters, Mrs. Arden Lauritzen, Hagerman; Mrs. W. G. Cheney, Milpitas, Calif., and Mrs. B. R. Davis, Sonora, Calif.; six brothers, Otis Cheney, Salt Lake City; Chester Cheney and D. M. Cheney, both Buhl; H. B. Cheney, Azusa, Calif.; Claude Cheney, Twin Falls, and Royal Cheney, Granger, Utah; a sister, Mrs. Dell Tadlock, Ketchum, 28 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Gooding LDS church by Bishop Sherman Swensen of the Twin Falls LDS second ward. Friends may call at the LDS church in Gooding from noon Friday until time of the services. Final rites will be at Elmwood Cemetery, Gooding.
Twin Falls Times News
1965-01-20
page 2

DEATH TAKES EX-GOODING MAN AT T.F.
Samuel M. Cheney, 76, route 1, Twin Falls, formerly of Gooding died Tuesday morning in Magic Valley Memorial Hospital of a long illness.

He was born June 17, 1888, in Tonto Basin, Ariz., and moved with his parents from Arizona to Fairview, Utah in 1893.

He married Anna Maude Staley at Coalville, Utah, Feb. 12, 1910. They moved to Buhl in 1911 where he homesteaded until 1915, when they moved to Upton, Utah, where he was engaged as a postman, farmed and mined. They moved to Border, Wyo., in 1920. He was engaged in the sheep and cattle industry in Wyoming until he and his wife moved to Gooding in 1935. She died Oct. 31, 1954.

In 1955 he moved to Twin Falls where he married Esther Williams the same year. She died Nov. 26, 1960.

On July 2, 1961 he married Lillian Cheney in Elko, Nev.

Mr. Cheney was a member of the Twin Falls LDS second ward. He was a member of the high priests quorum of the Twin Falls stake.

Survivors include his widow, Twin Falls; five sons, M. Staley Cheney, Willis Cheney and Victor Cheney, all Gooding; Loren Keith Cheney, logan and Dale Cheney, Caldwell; a daughter, Mrs. James [Halley] Spencer, Twin Falls: a step-son, LeRoy Burke, Gulfport, Miss.; three step-daughters, Mrs. Arden Lauritzen, Hagerman; Mrs. W. G. Cheney, Milpitas, Calif., and Mrs. B. R. Davis, Sonora, Calif.; six brothers, Otis Cheney, Salt Lake City; Chester Cheney and D. M. Cheney, both Buhl; H. B. Cheney, Azusa, Calif.; Claude Cheney, Twin Falls, and Royal Cheney, Granger, Utah; a sister, Mrs. Dell Tadlock, Ketchum, 28 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Gooding LDS church by Bishop Sherman Swensen of the Twin Falls LDS second ward. Friends may call at the LDS church in Gooding from noon Friday until time of the services. Final rites will be at Elmwood Cemetery, Gooding.


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