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Cheryl Anne Billingham (12 Oct 1945 - 10 Oct 2025)
Funeral Director
- Location
- Gornal Wood crematorium Gornal Wood DY5-3 2RL
- Date
- 4th Nov 2025
- Time
- 1.30pm
Dear extended family, friends, colleagues and associates,
We warmly invite you to join us as we gather to pay our final respects and celebrate Cheryl's long and joyful life on Tuesday 4th November 2025.
Arrangents are as follows:
12.20pm Arise Church, Kingswinford, DY6 7HS.
A service of worship, commencing at 12.30, to celebrate the life and faith of Cheryl.
1.30pm Gornal Wood Crematorium, DY3 2RL
A humanist commital for family, close friends and those choosing not to attend the service at Arise Church.
1.30pm onwards, The Forge, Dudley, DY5 4TS
A relaxed gathering to remember Cheryl, share stories and celebrate a life well lived. A light buffet will be served from 2pm.
Special requests:
Please wear your brightest outfits - or whatever makes you comfortable. Cheryl kindly requested that no-one wears "mourning black", as she wished for an uplifting farewell!
Family flowers only, please.
Donations, if desired, will be gratefully recieved and shared between Cheryl's cherished charities: Ravens Rescue UK and the SHINE foundation. Thank you for your kindness and support.
We look forward to sharing this time of remembrance with you.
Kevin, Peter and Ruth x
Afterglow
I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one.
I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done.
I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways,
Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days.
I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun;
Of happy memories that I leave when life is done.
—Helen Lowrie Marshall
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So sorry to hear of your loss.
Sincerely yours
Kevin,Jan and family
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Kevin,I'm sorry to hear about Cheryl.
Love to you and your family at this sad time. From Meg and Tracey x
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Fondest memories of dearest Cheryl..may she now rest in peace.
Love to you all at this sad time.
God Bless.
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Happy memories of Cheryl and our extended family.R.I.P. Cousin Paul x
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Thank you dear Cheryl for your friendship, the shared laughter and the warmth and kindness you showed to me and many others. You will be so missed and never forgotten. May you rest in peace and the love of God.
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With love,miss you so much xx
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Treasured Memories of Chel, my dearest cousin,I always think of you with a smile, i'll miss you just being there to get in touch. R.I.P xx
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My most vivid memories with Cheryl are just so much fun and laughter.
We laughed when I set my coat on fire in Prague. Laughed even more when we broke the toilet in Greece. And laughed and giggled when I.was attacked by a cat.
She was so funny, intelligent most of all so, so kind hearted.
An irreplaceable woman. We will miss you so much my lovely wonderful friend.
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A wonderful human being who I have had the pleasure and the privilege of knowing at various periods of my life!
My overarching memory will be as a spotty, ‘Grebo’ student at Halesowen College who alongside a houseful of others would ‘sleep over’ after a night of alcohol, song and merriment after a night out with Ruth (who we all secretly fancied but was unrequited).
Hungover, smelly from the events of the night before, and pretending to be asleep when the ‘adult’ walked downstairs to find a room full of scruffy teenagers with ‘Ned’s Atomic Dustbin’ T-Shirts on Cheryl would make loaves of buttered toast, potfuls of tea and listen to us retail the events of the night before.
My mate Paddy and myself found out that she ‘worked’ at Brierley Hill swimming baths and we would often bunk of college to spend time over another cuppa Tay and toast in her little office! Ruth started to feel envious of the relationship we were developing with her mom!
Decades later, through Kevin and politics I was reintroduced to Cheryl and as a result Ruth where we would reunite occasionally to enter the mosh pit at a Ned’s gig!! (Pretending to be teenagers again and longing for a sleepover, a sofa, and to be met by loaves of buttered toast and potfuls of tea).
The best of times which will never be forgotten!
One of the best!
Pete Lowe
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A lovely, caring friend who always checked in every Sunday morning to keep me a seat. You will be remembered fondly for the good you did and the laughs we had. Be at peace 🙏 ❤️ xxx
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Thinking and sending love to you all at this sad time. Cheryl was a special friend to me. We met when I went to live next door to her in Grassmoor Road in 1957. We became close friends. I have such fond memories of her. I will be attending her funeral. RIP Cheryl ❤️
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Thinking of & praying for all the family at this sad time. Cheryl was a wonderful, caring lady who was always willing to help out others. It was a pleasure for 3 generations of our family to be part of her life.
Both Paul & myself will be attending the funeral & the forge afterwards.
Much love been sent your way 🙏🙏❤️❤️
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'Love lives on'(anon)
Those we love remain with us
For love itself lives on,
And cherished memories
Never fade
Because a loved one's gone.
Those we love can never
Be more than a thought
Apart,
For as long as there is
Memory,
They'll live on in the heart.
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For a beautiful friend. So many lovely memories I will cherish forever.
Now 'Face to face'
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So many photos over the years to choose from, but here is one of our favourites and how Dave and I will always remember Cheryl… full of fun and always laughing.
With love,miss you so much xx
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