Article: She Thought of Herself Last.

Byline: Dennis Shaughnessey

Jun. 25--WINDHAM, N.H. -- It is only now as adults that Kathleen Cheney's two children have a better sense of what their mother had to do to keep the family together.

Cheney, who taught for 36 years at Billerica's John F. Kennedy Elementary School, died on June 19 after a four-year battle with breast cancer. She was 60.

"She was a single mom. I was 6 months old and my brother was 2 years old," said her daughter, Elizabeth Stratton of Haverhill, Mass., now 35. "She was left with a mortgage. She had no car. She had two little ones to feed. She worked two or three jobs. She did whatever she had to do to make it work."

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