Brownie Stanfill Cheatham

View Funeral Webcast Ella Brownie Stanfill Cheatham, 94, resident of West Avenue, died Sunday, March 29, 2015 at Maury Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. at Oakes & Nichols with Matt Yuhas and Randy Short officiating. Burial will follow in Polk Memorial Gardens. The family will visit with friends Tuesday from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Notes of sympathy may be sent to www.oakesandnichols.com. A native of the Kettle Mills Community in Maury County, she was a daughter of the late Willie Augustus Stanfill and Callie Olivia Smith Stanfill. After graduating from high school, she worked for several years as a seamstress at Tennessee Knitting Mills. She was a long-time member of Sharp's Corner Church of Christ. She was the widow of Harry P. Cheatham, whom she married in 1946. Survivors include a brother, Jack (Betty) Stanfill of Mt. Juliet; several nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, great-great-nieces and great-great-nephews; and a special friend, Wayne Jenkins of Mississippi. She was preceded in death by sisters, Nora B. Lindsey, Clara Walls, Tommie Stanfill, and GeorgeAnn Thurman; and brothers, J. D. Stanfill and Whitey Stanfill. Nephews will serve as active pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers include the congregation of Sharp's Corner Church of Christ.