Cheryl Anne Weis Rutter's Obituary
After a long battle with Early Onset Dementia, Cheryl Anne Weis Rutter was reunited in heaven with her children and her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Friday, December 1, 2023.
Cheryl was born in Lima, Ohio on December 30, 1954 to Edith and Edward Weis. She loved showing horses for her local 4H, especially her beloved horse Chip. Cheryl attended Shawnee High School before going to Nursing School in Toledo, Ohio. Later in life and through much adversity, she earned her Masters at Loyola University New Orleans and furthered her career as an adult Nurse Practitioner.
Cheryl met her husband Gene Rutter of 47 years on an airplane in Charleston, SC and they were engaged 22 days later. While raising her children in Covington, Louisiana she enjoyed traveling, watersports, snow skiing and most of all opening her home to host countless bible studies, showers and parties. She will be remembered by all of the patients’ lives she touched in the NICU, labor and delivery, ER and later working in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and with Veterans in Santa Fe, NM.
Cheryl was a master seamstress, she loved to sew, design and craft things for everyone she knew and didn’t know. In her lifetime she made and gifted hundreds of beautiful smocked baby bonnets and knitted scarves and blankets.
Cheryl is preceded in death by her two children Courtney Marie Rutter (1983) and Eugene James Rutter III (2003) and her father Edward Weis. She is survived by her husband Eugene Rutter Jr., her daughters Chelsie Jackson (Randy) and Caitlin Boelte (Jeremy) and her beloved grandchildren Isaac, Imogene and Emmett Jackson and Courtney, Alice and Catherine Boelte.
Cheryl will be privately laid to rest in New Orleans, LA.
E.J. Fielding Funeral Home locally owned and operated, (985) 892-9222 has been entrusted with funeral arrangements.
The Rutter family kindly invites you to share thoughts, fondest memories, and condolences online at E. J. Fielding Funeral Home Guest Book at www.ejfieldingfh.com.
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