Doris W. Cheney, 91, died Saturday night, October 1, 2022 at home in Nashua, NH, where she lived with her son, Lucas, and his wife, Mary.

Doris was born on February 6, 1931, in Brookhaven, NY, the daughter of Allen C. Wooldridge and Margaret Lund Wooldridge. The family moved often when Doris was young because her father was an electrical engineer, and our country's use of electricity and appliances grew rapidly then, as now. Eventually they settled in Essex Fells, NJ, in a huge neglected Victorian house that Doris missed for the rest of her life. She graduated from Caldwell High School, and went on to major in Voice at Syracuse University. She married Paul Braginetz, a veteran, in the summer of 1950, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1952. Doris and Paul had two children before divorcing in 1954. Doris earned a teaching certificate from the Teachers' College in Newark, and then a Master of Education in 1958. She married Harold Grigg in 1961, and they had two children. They moved to Windsor, VT, in 1971, where Doris taught pre-school for 3 years before becoming a Day Care Licenser, and then she taught first grade at State Street School. Eventually she and Harold developed irreconcilable differences, and divorced in 1976. Doris began to attend UCC services at Old South Church, and discovered when she joined the choir that she loved the acoustics there. She also met and married the kind and generous Reverend R. Nelson Cheney.

Doris and Nelson moved to Pennsylvania in 1980 to be closer to her aging parents while they lived, but returned to Vermont as soon as possible in the Spring of 2001, making a home in Wallingford. Nelson died there in December, 2002. Doris moved to Nashua, NH, in 2014 to be closer to her son, Lucas.

Doris loved to have her house in Windsor full of children, her own, as well as children from the neighborhood who came over to play. She also loved music (especially Beethoven) and reading. Until her arthritis became too severe, she knit sweaters, hats, scarves, mittens, and socks for her family, and for charitable causes.

She was a kind, loving and patient woman. She is survived by and will be greatly missed by her four children, Eric Braginetz, Thomas Braginetz, Lucas Lund, and Martha Harrison; her five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Calling hours will be held on Saturday, October 22 between 2 and 3 pm, at Knight Funeral Home in Windsor, VT. A graveside service will immediately follow in the Ascutney Cemetery in Windsor, VT.

Memorial contributions may be made to UNICEF at www.unicefusa.org . Condolences may be expressed in an online guestbook found at www.knightfuneralhomes.com