Margaret Helen Cheatham Brabham (88), passed away on Saturday, August 19, 2017. She was born on August 6, 1929, in Ducktown (Polk County), Tennessee to the late Reverend Nathan Floyd Cheatham and Frances Lucille Amburn Cheatham.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Gerald Waldo Brabham of Rocky Mount, and her infant daughter, Maggie Amburn Brabham.
She is survived by her brother and sister-in-law the Reverend James Amburn Cheatham and Ann Huffman Cheatham of Mineral Bluff, Georgia; and her sister and brother-in-law Dorothy Frances Cheatham Cornell and the Reverend Charles George Cornell of Clermont, Florida; daughter and son-in-law Sherry Frances Brabham and James Anthony O'Brien of Glen Ridge, New Jersey; her sons, Gerald Martin (Gerry) Brabham of Rocky Mount Carolina and Anthony Floyd (Tony) Brabham of Charlotte; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Polk County Historical and Genealogical Society (PO Box 636, Benton, Tennessee 37307) or the Friends of the Braswell Memorial Library (PO Box 244, Rocky Mount, North Carolina 27802).
A memorial service was held Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at Johnson Funeral Home, Rocky Mount. Burial will be private.