Masseuse who died at Chris Bosh's home built her own business - MiamiHerald.com

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Chautele Mia Cooksey, from her Facebook page.
After several years of working as a masseuse, Chautele Mia Cooksey, a 41-year-old Texan-turned-Miamian, scored a gig giving massages at Miami Heat player Chris Bosh’s Miami Beach mansion. The Coral Gables resident died Monday night at the hospital after collapsing there.
While no foul play is suspected, her death hangs under a cloud of unanswered questions and leaves uneasiness with the Bosh family, which is dealing with the Heat’s stressful future in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals.
The Bosh family released a statement after Cooksey’s death, saying “Our hearts go out to her family.â€
The grief is better told in messages Bosh’s wife, Adrienne, tweeted.
“A beautiful soul was lost tonight. Never take the here and now for granted. Life can be so frail,†she tweeted. “1 min ur here, The next ur not. Today I Kissed my loved ones a few more times, I held them a little big tighter, hugged them for a little longer.â€
Cooksey arrived at the North Bay Road home at 10:24 a.m. Monday, according to a Miami Beach police report. She looked like she was “well and in good spirits.â€
Around 2:28 p.m., she passed out, and someone called 911. Miami Beach Fire Rescue took her to Mount Sinai Medical Center, and she died at 11:45 p.m.
The report stated that a friend told police that Cooksey survived cancer a year before, but her history spans much further than that.
Born in Texas, she moved to New Haven, Conn., in her early 20s to an apartment not far from Yale University’s campus, although school records show she wasn’t a student. She moved to Jacksonville a few years after and later settled in Miami-Dade.
During that time, she was preparing for her career in massage therapy. She received a license for cosmetology in the mid-2000s and received one for massage therapy shortly after that. She opened her own massage business, Channels of Light Life Center, around 2007.
She married Edwin Santiago, of Port St. Lucie, in 2003, and they had a son. They divorced a year later, citing irreconcilable differences.
The cause of her death has not been determined, and Miami Beach police continue to investigate.