The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee), 2 September 1975 (Tuesday)
1st Dodge Dealer John Cheek Dies
John Hancock Cheek, 85, of Park Manor Apartments, former owner and president of the world's first Dodge dealership, died yesterday at his home.
Services will be at 10 A. M. Tomorrow at First Presbyterian Church. Private burial will be at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Martin's and Bracey-Welch Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Cheek was the former owner and president of Cumberland Motor Co. in Nashville, the first dealership to obtain the franchise to sell Dodge automobiles.
Prior to that time, he worked for his father in the Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. here and in the Farrell-Cheek Steel Co. in Sandusky, Ohio.
A native of the Nashville, Cheek was the son of the late Joel O. and minnie Ritchie Cheek.
He graduated from Hume–Fogg High School and attended Vanderbilt and Cornell Universities, where he was a member of Pi Psi fraternity. He received an honorary LLD degree from Cumberland University in Lebanon.
He was married to the late Susan Anderson Glenn Hancock of Clarksville.
He was a former director of the Nashville trust company and a member of Belle Meade country club.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. William H. Eason and Mrs. Charles M. Plaxico, both of Nashville; a son, John Hancock Cheek Jr., Nashville; a sister, Mrs. Herbert Farrell, New York; two brothers, James H. Cheek, Daytona Beach, Florida, and Newman Cheek, Nashville; seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
1st Dodge Dealer John Cheek Dies
John Hancock Cheek, 85, of Park Manor Apartments, former owner and president of the world's first Dodge dealership, died yesterday at his home.
Services will be at 10 A. M. Tomorrow at First Presbyterian Church. Private burial will be at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Martin's and Bracey-Welch Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Cheek was the former owner and president of Cumberland Motor Co. in Nashville, the first dealership to obtain the franchise to sell Dodge automobiles.
Prior to that time, he worked for his father in the Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. here and in the Farrell-Cheek Steel Co. in Sandusky, Ohio.
A native of the Nashville, Cheek was the son of the late Joel O. and minnie Ritchie Cheek.
He graduated from Hume–Fogg High School and attended Vanderbilt and Cornell Universities, where he was a member of Pi Psi fraternity. He received an honorary LLD degree from Cumberland University in Lebanon.
He was married to the late Susan Anderson Glenn Hancock of Clarksville.
He was a former director of the Nashville trust company and a member of Belle Meade country club.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. William H. Eason and Mrs. Charles M. Plaxico, both of Nashville; a son, John Hancock Cheek Jr., Nashville; a sister, Mrs. Herbert Farrell, New York; two brothers, James H. Cheek, Daytona Beach, Florida, and Newman Cheek, Nashville; seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee), 2 September 1975 (Tuesday)
1st Dodge Dealer John Cheek Dies
John Hancock Cheek, 85, of Park Manor Apartments, former owner and president of the world's first Dodge dealership, died yesterday at his home.
Services will be at 10 A. M. Tomorrow at First Presbyterian Church. Private burial will be at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Martin's and Bracey-Welch Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Cheek was the former owner and president of Cumberland Motor Co. in Nashville, the first dealership to obtain the franchise to sell Dodge automobiles.
Prior to that time, he worked for his father in the Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. here and in the Farrell-Cheek Steel Co. in Sandusky, Ohio.
A native of the Nashville, Cheek was the son of the late Joel O. and minnie Ritchie Cheek.
He graduated from Hume–Fogg High School and attended Vanderbilt and Cornell Universities, where he was a member of Pi Psi fraternity. He received an honorary LLD degree from Cumberland University in Lebanon.
He was married to the late Susan Anderson Glenn Hancock of Clarksville.
He was a former director of the Nashville trust company and a member of Belle Meade country club.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. William H. Eason and Mrs. Charles M. Plaxico, both of Nashville; a son, John Hancock Cheek Jr., Nashville; a sister, Mrs. Herbert Farrell, New York; two brothers, James H. Cheek, Daytona Beach, Florida, and Newman Cheek, Nashville; seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
1st Dodge Dealer John Cheek Dies
John Hancock Cheek, 85, of Park Manor Apartments, former owner and president of the world's first Dodge dealership, died yesterday at his home.
Services will be at 10 A. M. Tomorrow at First Presbyterian Church. Private burial will be at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Martin's and Bracey-Welch Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Cheek was the former owner and president of Cumberland Motor Co. in Nashville, the first dealership to obtain the franchise to sell Dodge automobiles.
Prior to that time, he worked for his father in the Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. here and in the Farrell-Cheek Steel Co. in Sandusky, Ohio.
A native of the Nashville, Cheek was the son of the late Joel O. and minnie Ritchie Cheek.
He graduated from Hume–Fogg High School and attended Vanderbilt and Cornell Universities, where he was a member of Pi Psi fraternity. He received an honorary LLD degree from Cumberland University in Lebanon.
He was married to the late Susan Anderson Glenn Hancock of Clarksville.
He was a former director of the Nashville trust company and a member of Belle Meade country club.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. William H. Eason and Mrs. Charles M. Plaxico, both of Nashville; a son, John Hancock Cheek Jr., Nashville; a sister, Mrs. Herbert Farrell, New York; two brothers, James H. Cheek, Daytona Beach, Florida, and Newman Cheek, Nashville; seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Family Members
Siblings
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Advertisement
