- Date Of Birth: August 6, 1928
- Date Of Death: October 20, 2020
- State: Colorado
J. Anita (Benitez) Chesher, Parker, CO; beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and aunt passed away Tuesday, October 20, 2020, at age 92. She was born August 6, 1928, to Manuel & Ysidra Benitez and 16 siblings in Owendale, MI.
Anita was a life-long practicing Catholic having been baptized Sept 21,1928 and received her First Communion in 1936. She graduated high school in 1947 and received her Registered Nursing degree in 1951 from St. Mary’s Nursing School in Saginaw, MI. She remained in nursing throughout her career with the longest journey at Iowa’s Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines when she retired in 1994. She returned to nursing in 2000 to retire again in 2006.
She was married to Leo E. Chesher, on December 26, 1953.
