Helen Maude Hunter Cheney, 59, Gooding, died Monday,,March 20, 1978, in Magic Valley Memorial Hospital, Twin Falls, Idaho, after a long illness. Cause of death was leukemia. Born July 11, 1918, In Bennington, the daughter of Clifford and Annie Mae Smeath Hunter, she attended schools there and in Montpelier and later in Provo. She graduated from Montpelier High School in 1936. She married Milton Staley Cheney November 28, 1938 in the Salt Lake City Temple. Mr. and Mrs. Cheney had lived most of their lives in Gooding, except for a few years spent in Galena and Ely, Nev. Mrs. Cheney was an active member of the LDS Church, holding offices in the Mutual Improvement Association, Sunday School, Primary, genealogy department and Relief Society. Mr. and Mrs. Cheney served three stake missions for the church. Survivors are her husband, Gooding; two sons, Rex Cheney, West Jordan, Utah, and Bryce Cheney, Gooding; one daughter, Gayanne Cheney, and her parents, al, Gooding; three brothers, Duaine Hunter, Provo, Donald Hunter, Salt Lake City, and Verne Hunter, Columbus, Ohio; two sisters, Mrs. Doris Folkman, Reno, Nev., and Mrs. Geraldine Weatherston, Ogden; and six grandchildren. Interment was in the Elmwod Cemetery in Gooding, Idaho.