Charmaine Wentz

Charmaine M. Wentz RICHMOND - Charmaine Marie Wentz, 82, died at Retreat Hospital in Richmond on April 23, 2010 from natural causes. Cheri, as she was affectionately known, was born in the Bay Area of San Francisco, Calif., on Sept. 22, 1927, the only child of Peter and Bernice Hubbard. She was raised by her maternal grandmother, Susie McBride in Virginia City, Nev. She graduated from the University of Nevada-Reno in 1948 with a degree in elementary teaching and fine arts. At UN-R she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. She married William Horton in 1950, that marriage ended in divorce. She began her teaching career in the Bay Area, but soon transferred her skills to the Department of Defense's overseas teaching program. Cheri was located at the Navy school in Manila, Philippines from 1957-58, transferred to Naples, Italy, from 1958-60, and then to Yokohama, Japan, from 1960-63. Her teaching career ended in the Chesapeake school system in the 1990s. In 1959 Cheri married Lt. j.g. James E. Wentz and accompanied him in his Navy assignments. They divorced in 1980. Cheri is survived by two sons, Thor of San Francisco and Kyle of Richmond and two grandchildren, Teagan and Colin Wentz of Virginia Beach. Cheri was a talented watercolor painter and enjoyed all of the fine arts, especially classical music. For recreation, she snow skied and swam. Cheri's cremated remains will be spread into the Atlantic Ocean in a private family ceremony.