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Friends, Family Mourn Death of Student Elizabeth Cheek, A Life That Ended Too Soon
Elizabeth Osborn Cheek, Courtesy Facebook
On Sunday, yet another young life was lost too soon to her Oxford, Ole Miss and Nashville families. Elizabeth Osborn Cheek, who was spending the semester off from studies at Ole Miss while living and working in Oxford, passed away. She was only twenty years old.
According to her obituary on Legacy.com, Elizabeth was born in Nashville. She attended the University of Mississippi where she was obtaining a bachelors degree in marketing. Elizabeth was also a member of the Delta Gamma sorority and worked as the head server at Bacchus on the Square in Oxford.
According to friends, she very much loved her job at Bacchus on the Square and often worked on marketing and party planning for the same company’s new venture Rowdy Rebs. Her close group of friends treasured their time with her as shown in these beautiful tributes.
Courtesy Facebook
Courtesy Facebook
She worked as a summer camp counselor at Camp Merrie Woode, a camp for girls and young women in North Carolina, which was the camp she had grown up going to.
Courtesy Facebook
According to friends, Elizabeth was full of life and had much to give, as evidenced by these posts introducing herself in anticipation of the arrival of the campers.
Courtesy merriewoode.com
According to the merriewood.com website, the mission of the camp reads: Merrie-Woode is a sanctuary of rarest beauty which inspires a lasting awareness of God’s presence. The Mission of Camp Merrie-Woode is to use that setting to nurture the physical, intellectual and spiritual growth of girls and young women through traditional camp activities and outdoor adventures. In this friendly, non-competitive community of simplified living, each individual is valued for who she is and who she will become.
Courtesy merriewoode.com
Here is Elizabeth’s Full Obituary courtesy of Legacy.com:
Elizabeth Cheek, courtesy Legacy.com
Elizabeth Cheek
Nashville, TN
She is survived by her grandmother, Lucy Baumann Zemp; grandfather, Pickslay Cheek; siblings, William Ross Cheek and Laura Hughes Cheek; aunts and uncles, John (Cammie) Claybrook, Andy (Lucy) Garrabrants, Katherine Zemp, and Pickslay Cheek III; cousins Hannah, Molly and Grace Claybrook ; and a host of extended family.
Visitation is scheduled for Monday, December 19, 2016 at 12 pm followed by a memorial service at 2 pm at Christ Church Cathedral, 900 Broadway in Nashville, TN. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made in Elizabeth’s name to Merrie-Woode Foundation, Inc. 100 Merrie Woode Road Sapphire, NC 28774 or the Nashville Humane Association, 213 Oceola Avenue Nashville, TN 37209.
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Published in Tennessean from Dec. 14 to Dec. 18, 2016– See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tennessean/obituary.aspx?n=elizabeth-cheek&pid=183075906&#sthash.gH4it9IK.dpuf
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John Smith
December 15, 2016 at 8:15 pm
I pray, this young lady will Rest In Eternal Peace…amen !!!
R J williams
December 22, 2016 at 11:17 pm
I hate to ask, but what was the cause? All the article states is passed away. Someone that age doesnt just pass…