Sandra Eileen (Cheesbro) Merton |
| Posted 2009-08-07 by Sharon |
| The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ February 14, 2007, p. A13 Sandra Eileen (Cheesbro) Merton was born Nov. 21, 1947 to Eldon E. and Genevie G. Cheesbro in Adrian, Mich. She has gone to be with the Lord after a short, hard battle with kidney cancer. Sandra and her family moved to Warren, Ohio, from Michigan in the 1950s as a young lady. That is where she met her husband of more than 40 years, Jerry C. Merten. They were married on Sept. 10, 1966 at the Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church in Warren, Ohio. Sandra attended the vocational program for Licensed Practical Nursing at Warren G. Harding High School. Upon graduating in 1965 and passing her state exam, she was employed as an LPN at St. Joseph's Riverside Hospital, in between child bearing from 1966 to 1991 on and off. In 1995 she had moved to Circle City, Ariz., to be near her parents. Where here she was employed at Soroptimist International Thrift Shop for the last three years in Wickenburg. Sandra has always given 110 percent in everything she has done in this life. Whether it be work, friendship or care and compassion for everyone and her family. She was a kind and caring woman, wife, mother, grandmother and friend. Sandra leaves behind her mother Genevie of Circle City, Ariz.; her brother Eldon E. and family of Congress, Ariz.; her sister Karen and family of Circle City; her children Jerry J., James R., Melisa M., and families of Warren, Ohio; William D. and family of New Philadelphia, Ohio, and son Dennis P. and family of Circle City. Sandra has a total of 22 grandchildren, 16 nephews and nieces, and 20 great-nephews and nieces, as well as an extended family of uncles, aunts and cousins in Arizona and Michigan, whom she dearly loved. She recently lost her father Eldon E. of Circle City. Preparations for cremation were made at Best Funeral Home. There will be no services as per Sandra's request. |
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