Huddie L. Cheney Jr.

A memorial service for Dr. Huddie Lee Cheney, Jr. will be held Tuesday, January 9 at 2:00 at the First Presbyterian Church in Thomasville, Georgia. Born in Cairo, Georgia on February 3, 1927, Dr. Cheney was the son of the late Huddie Lee and Rose Chastain Cheney. The 1943 graduate of Cairo High School attended Emory at Oxford before entering the U. S. Navy in 1944. On his return in 1946, he entered Emory University and then the Medical College of Georgia. He married Anne Lockett Connelly of Cuthbert, Georgia in 1953. Internship and residency were taken at Atlanta's VA Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital where he served as Dr. Willis Hearst's first chief resident. Dr. Cheney came to Thomasville in 1958 and practiced Internal Medicine until 1992. An active member of the Georgia Heart Association, Dr. Cheney worked with heart patients in the crippled children's clinic and established the first Cardio-Vascular Center at Archbold Memorial Hospital. He died January 7, 2007 at Archbold. Survivors include his wife Anne Connelly Cheney, son and daughter-in-law Huddie Lee Cheney, III and Cathy of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, son and daughter-in-law Stephen Harmon and Allison Allen Cheney, daughter and son-in-law Julianne Cheney and Douglas Caldwell McPherson, grandchildren Stephen Cheney, Allen Cheney, Scott Cheney, Anne McPherson, and Elise McPherson of Thomasville, and one sister and brother-in-law Betty Cheney and Charles Watkins of Virginia Beach, Virginia. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the Archbold Foundation, Archbold Scholarship Program where a scholarship in his memory will be established.