Charlene A. “Cheri” Wood
...N.H. Pharmacist formerly of Tewksbury, Mass; 40
NEWBURY, NH - Charlene A. “Cheri” (Hancock) Wood, age 40, died Thursday, Jan. 6, from
injuries sustained in an automobile accident in New Boston, NH. She was the wife of Michael L.
Wood, with whom she had celebrated a 15th wedding anniversary this past June 18th.
She was born in Winchester, MA, on May 18, 1964, a daughter of Allen “Al” and Ann
(McGunigle) Hancock, of Tewksbury. She was raised in Tewksbury and graduated from Keith
Hall in Lowell, with the Class of 1982. She matriculated to the Massachusetts College of
Pharmacy, where she was a member of the graduating Class of 1987. Following her marriage, she
moved to Lowell, MA, then Weare, N.H. She had resided in New Hampshire since 1992.
As a resident of Weare, she served as co-chairperson of the Weare Parent Teacher Organization.
She was creative with crafts, enjoyed sewing, and ‘creative memory’ scrap-booking, as well as
travel.
She will be remembered by many of her clients, especially the elderly and retired, as a totally
dedicated and caring professional. She died while driving to her job, at the Pharmacy at
Hanniford’s Store in Goffstown, during a severe winter storm.
Her funeral will be held in the church of her childhood, and the church she was married in, St.
William’s Church in Tewksbury.
Besides her husband and parents, she is survived by two sons, Thomas G. Wood and Ian M.
Wood; two sisters and a brother-in-law, Maureen A. Hancock of Lowell, MA, and Christine A.
and her husband Joseph Donovan of Tyngsboro, MA; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Shawn A.
and his wife Alison (Small) Hancock of Tewksbury, Timothy P. and his wife Molly (O’Donnell)
Hancock of Methuen, MA; her mother-in-law, Margaret R. (Russell) Wood of Hampstead, NH; ?three sisters- in-law and their spouses, Karen and her husband Ronald Preston of So. Hampton,
NH, Patricia and her husband Walter Mayo of Monson, MA, Deborah and her husband Michael
Lacasse of Londonderry, NH;
and many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was also daughter-in-law of the late Stanley L. Wood.
Her Funeral Mass was held Jan. 11, in St. William’s Church, Tewksbury. Burial was held May 14 in New London, NH. In lieu of flowers, memorials to the Autism Society of New Hampshire, P.O. Box 68,
Concord, NH 03302 , or The Parent Teacher Resource Center at Center Woods and Weare
Middle School 14 Center Rd. Weare NH 03281 Att: Cheri Easter will be appreciated.