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Obituary- Cheek, Jared

JARED M. CHEEK

Jared Michael Cheek, 23, St. Marys, died Friday, September 16, 2005, at the Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL, from injuries he received in an auto accident.

Jared was born November 25, 1981, in Topeka, the son of Joan Martin and Rick Cheek. He had lived in the St. Marys and Emmett communities many years.

He graduated from St. Marys High School in 2000. Jared received a bachelor’s degree from Benedictine College, Atchison after transferring from Baker University for his final year. At Baker he was a scholarship golfer, a member of the student senate and officer in the Sigma Phi Epsilon national fraternity. He was attending seminary in Mundelein, IL at the University of St. Mary of the Lake, where he was in his first year of Theology studying to become a priest for Archdiocese of Kansas in Kansas City.

Jared was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus Council 657 in St. Marys.

Survivors include his parents, Joan and Brandon Magette, St Marys, and Rick Cheek, Belvue; two sisters, Emily Cheek, Manhattan, and Erin Magette Miller, Topeka; one brother, Lucas Cheek, St Marys; grandparents John and Agnes Martin, Emmett, Karen Cheek, Topeka, and Don and Jan McGranahan, Rossville.

Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Burial will be in Mt. Calvary Cemetery, St. Marys. He will lie in state after 3 p.m. Wednesday, at the church, where there will be a vigil service at 7 p.m. followed by a rosary.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Archdiocese of Kansas City Kansas for Vocations, and sent in care of Piper Funeral Home, 714 Maple Street, St. Marys 66536.