DEL-ROSE
CHEATHAM: A Dream Already Realized
The family of Del-Rose Cheatham was anticipating
another great party in celebration of her 49th birthday
on Sept. 14. Her last big bash, in the family home in the
Poconos with 55 friends and family members, was to
celebrate her 2000 graduation from Queens College after
years of night school, during which she worked two
jobs.
She had already been working as an accounting manager
at Cantor Fitzgerald, on the 101st floor of 1 World Trade
Center, but the diploma was "her dream," said her
brother, Chris Forbes. He was the youngest of five
children in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and Del-Rose was the
oldest, "and she was a mother to me; she raised all of
us," Mr. Forbes said. His sister was a Jehovah's Witness,
and loved to do field work, strolling up and down the
street and talking to people about God. Now God is very
much on the family's mind. "All we can do is accept,"
said Dunstan Forbes, her father.
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