Delsene Linsette Cheeks

Delsene Linsette Cheeks was born on July 18, 1956 to the late Boyd Cheeks and Bessie Marie Curry. She matriculated through the Burlington City School system and earned her high school diploma in Portland Oregon. On March 5, 2026 following a lengthy illness, Delsene passed away at the CHI Saint Francis Hospital in Grand Island, Nebraska.

A Gathering to celebrate her life will be held from 5-7 P.M. on Thursday, March 19, 2026, at Jacobsen-Greenway-Dietz Funeral Home in St. Paul.  Memorials are suggested to the family to be designated at a later date.  

Delsene devoted her life to missionary work throughout the United States and the world.

She left an indelible impact on the lives she ministered to and over the course of her years she developed close personal relationships.

We celebrate Delsene’s life and her presence of being. We will always look for Delsene in meaningful poems and stories, beautiful songs and infectious laughter. All of these are attributes reflective of the kind of soul she was and still is in spirit.

Delsene was preceded in death by her parents, Boyd Cheeks and Bessie Marie Curry; her siblings, Boyd Cheeks, Jr. and Toni (Cheeks) Long. She leaves to cherish her memory her siblings, Vanessa (Cheeks) Harris (Fred), Bonita (Cheeks) Johnson (James), Heath L. Cheeks and Jarrod W. Cheeks (Lakisha). The special relationship she had with her nephew and his wife, Anthony and Althea Burton. She also had a beautiful connection and relationship with Jo Ann Gibson, Sue Mathews, and Doug and Cathy Saner.

“Each day of my life, like a carousel turns. 

There are chances to take and lessons to learn.  

Caught up in problems that each day would bring.

Chances slip by, to catch the brass ring.

Whenever I felt my ride slowing down, Your gentle hand would push me around.

Picking me up, each times that I fell, You rode beside me on my Carousel.”

By Peggy Whiting