Uninvited guest



Tow-truck driver Donn Carey, above, sweeps shattered glass from the hood of a car Monday after pulling it out of the front of a house in the Mossman neighborhood. The driver of the vehicle reportedly suffered a stroke and lost control of the car, running into the front of the house in the background. Below, Ken Abeita shovels debris from the front of his home after getting a call at work that a car had driven into his house. Nobody inside the house was hurt in the accident.

Photos by Jeff Jones

 

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Woman killed

Staff Report

GALLUP — An Ontario, Canada, woman died Monday morning after the vehicle she was traveling in smashed into the guardrail and skidded across two lanes of traffic at the 1 mile marker on Interstate 40.

New Mexico State Police Officer Peterson Long reported that the victim, Patricia Nice, 71, was pronounced dead at the scene from what police said probably were internal injuries.

The victim's husband, John Nice, 74, admitted to police that he lost control of his 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis after falling asleep.

Police said the driver overcorrected when he woke up and slid sideways into a guardrail.

The impact from hitting the guardrail then forced the vehicle back across both westbound lanes before it came to a stop after crashing into the other guardrail...

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Chapter ponders Navajo health care pitch

Larry Di Giovanni
Staff Writer

SHIPROCK — The chief executive of Navajo Health Care System Corp. gave her best pitch Sunday for why a changeover of health care control from Indian Health Service to the Navajo Nation is in the best interest of the Diné people.

The forthcoming decision on a changeover to a Public Law 93-638 contract, which Navajo Health Care CEO Lydia Hubbard-Pourier hopes to place before the Navajo Nation Council during its winter session Jan. 22-26, puts a lot on the line. The tribe's decision to assume control of its health care needs may be the most important decision facing the council.

More than $400 million annually in federally provided health care funds is at stake. During the winter session, Hubbard-Pourier will ask tribal delegates to take another monumental step: approval of the contract application.

The council may consider in two weeks whether to convert all eight IHS service units to the changeover simultaneously or go piecemeal, starting with the areas most in favor of the concept. The council could decide to table that decision.

A 36-member health care design team has recommended the all-at-once route.

"It's just managerially more efficient," Hubbard-Pourier said.

The service units will be transformed into regional affiliates, each with its own governing body that will report to the Navajo Health Care System Corp. Board of Directors. Each regional affiliate will decide how its health care funds will best serve the needs of its patients, she said, with local control standing as one of the main benefits of the changeover.

Each regional affiliate will have its own name. The Shiprock service unit's is Northern Medical Health Care Inc.

"There will be a contract negotiated for how they're going to spend their money over here," she said. "That's how it's going to work."

Hubbard-Pourier, joined by a Navajo language interpreter, as well as Louis Tutt, representing Navajo Nation Vice President Taylor McKenzie, and Hondo Baldwin Louis of the Division of Health's Office of Self Determination, spent much of her time Sunday explaining changeover benefits to Shiprock Chapter voting members.

Another major benefit will be for those IHS employees who decide to join Navajo Health Care System Corp., Hubbard-Pourier said. Salaries and benefits for transferring-in employees will be equal to or better than their existing employment agreements, she assured chapter members. Base pay, performance incentives, health benefits and retirement also will be better.

Existing years of service will also be recognized.

"So we're making it as lucrative as possible, as good as possible, for all employees to come over (to Navajo Health Care System Corp.)," Hubbard-Pourier said.

Seventy-five percent of all tribes within the United States receive health funding through Public Law 93-638 contracts, she said.
Those that don't, such as the Navajo Nation, see other tribes take away funding that would otherwise be theirs. A PL-93-638 contract secures funding, and also allows tribes to lobby for more funding, she added.

Base health funding for IHS on the Navajo Nation now stands at $325 million annually. That amount will be increased by $40 to $45 million yearly in contract support costs about $60 million in the first year and $54 million per annum to pay tribal shares for executive management, personnel management, budgeting, and other functions performed at headquarters.

Regarding how the money will be disbursed, Hubbard-Pourier said, "It will not go to the Navajo Nation; it will go directly from IHS to this corporation."

Tutt said the President/Vice President's Office supports the changeover, largely because it will result in $100 million annually in new funds for Navajo health care not currently provided under the IHS system.

Shiprock opposed

Shiprock Chapter members expressed concerns about the changeover to a Navajo-controlled health care system, ranging from how transferring IHS employees would be treated to how successful a large tribe can be in such a venture compared to a small tribe.

Albert Buck of Shiprock described himself as a "victim of (Public Law 93) 638." Buck said he worked for another tribe in southern Arizona as a medical clerk. He said he was coerced into either joining the 638 movement as a tribal employee, or being transferred to another facility. He chose instead to retire, about two years ago.

"For a large tribe, I don't think it'll succeed," Buck said.

Hubbard-Pourier said IHS employees joining Navajo Health Care System Corp. can join either through an Intergovernmental Personnel Act Agreement, or as direct hires, the corporation's "preferred route."

One long-time critic of the changeover is Larson Manuelito of Tohatchi. He said the issue of tribal control should have been placed before Diné voters as a referendum. Without choice, the Diné people have no option but to go along with the council's wishes, he said.

A "no" to 638 committee gathered more than 10,000 signatures by summer, but failed to meet the tribal law requirement that 30 percent of all Navajo registered voters must sign petitions to place an issue on the ballot.

"It's too critical of an issue for Navajo Nation Council delegates, standing committees, and the design team to decide for the Navajo people," Manuelito said.

Several audience members said no Navajo political figures, such as council delegates, past or present, should be sitting on the Navajo Health Care System Corp. boards or the regional affiliate governing boards. Those decisions will be made at the local level. Regional boards will have the power to select their own service unit representative to sit on the Navajo Health Care System Board of Directors.

That board currently consists of 11 voting members, one from each the eight service units, and three at-large members selected by the Health and Human Services Committee after a paring down of candidates offered by the design team.

Shiprock resident Sally Begay expressed concern that former tribal Chairman Thomas Atcitty was the Shiprock service unit's representative. The people of Shiprock did not select him, she said. Begay was informed that a service unit advisory board, consisting of members of several health boards in the Shiprock Agency, made the selection.

Shiprock Council Delegate Richard T. Begaye told chapter members that however they voted, their three delegates would represent them as such in Window Rock. Shiprock Chapter members voted 76-0 to reaffirm their September resolution, which asked for more information on the changeover issue and asked that it be placed on a reservationwide ballot.

Last January, the council authorized a design team consisting of health care professionals, both tribal and IHS, to work with the Division of Health and Office of Self Determination to finalize a corporate structure. Baldwin Louis said the tribe hopes to implement the changeover starting in January 2002.

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Cockfighting is coming home to roost

Tom Purdom
Staff Writer

GRANTS — Jan. 26 could end up being cockfighting's last stand in Cibola County. It also could be the day a new and legal era for fighting chickens begins.

But no matter which way the county commission votes on the issue, it has the potential to draw a lawsuit.

Cibola County commissioners met for more than an hour behind closed doors Monday night discussing litigation surrounding cockfighting. They then set the date for voting on a county animal control ordinance that contains a ban on cockfighting.

The commission decided to advertise the proposed animal control ordinance calling for a ban on cockfighting. Then the issue will come up for a vote before the commission.

Nothing else was said about the issue by newly elected presiding Commissioner Issac Padilla other than that the ordinance would be advertised.

The cockfighting issue already has drawn Cibola County into state and national headlines.

In August, the commission was at the brink of enacting the ordinance, but waffled at the last moment and opted instead to ask for clarification on some language.

That, however, was a different commission.

Of the five current commission members, three are new, including Padilla, Bennie Cohoe, and Arturo S. Candelaria. Only Fred Scott, who at one time said he opposed cockfighting, and James Meisner, who from the beginning said he opposed cockfights, remain on the commission.

The cockfighting controversy has seen a flip-flop of yes and no activity since Aug. 1, when Raton resident Steve Hayden spent $30,000 on the Zuni Mountain Game Club, a cockfighting arena near San Rafael. The club operated for 16 years, even though the county had a ban on cockfighting in its animal control ordinance. Sonny Small owned the club.

After Hayden visited the sheriff's office he found out later that cockfighting was illegal in Cibola County and the fight began. County officials were in the process of drafting a new animal control ordinance, one which bans cockfighting.

The issue drifted in and out of commission meetings in September, October and November without a firm consensus and then the commission decided to table the issue for the next commission to take up, which is what the new one did Monday.

Meanwhile both sides began letter-writing campaigns and telephone campaigns to virtually anyone who would listen, both on and off the commission.

One court action already was filed to get an injunction against the county on the animal control ordinance with the cockfighting ban and at one commission meeting at least one cockfighting proponent promised a lawsuit against the county if cockfighting was banned.

If the commission approves the ordinance Jan. 26 it will still be about one month before the ban actually goes into effect. In the meantime, after a district court judge approved the injunction, it left Cibola County without an animal control ordinance; however, the county has been operating under state statutes until the mess is cleaned up.

In other matters the commission:

Approved four housekeeping resolutions; one dealing with how to conduct business, including compliance with the Open Meetings Act; another dealing with designating banks to act as county depositories; another dealing with county policies; and the fourth dealing with county employee holiday schedules.

Approved a professional service contract with the district attorney office to act as the county attorney.

Approved an Internet access agreement among Cibola County, Grants/Cibola County School District, Grants and the Future Foundations Family Center.

Approved the Youth Conservation Corps agreement and a budget adjustment that deals with the Youth Conservation Corps.

Approved a letter of support for the Cibola County Maternal Child Health Council to be used in the council's state grant process.
Approved a DWI grant application for $230,000 for the DWI program in Cibola County.

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Athletes of the week

Michael Peretti
Staff Sports Writer

The Athletes of the Week for the week of January 2-9 are Gallup High Bengal Zack Haynes and Pinon Lady Eagle Fawn Gene.

Haynes, a junior at Gallup High School, placed first in the 130 pound division at the Round Valley tournament this weekend and was named the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler.

"We have done pretty good," said Haynes, last year's Class AAAA state runner up in the 119-pound division, on his and his teams accomplishments this year.

Haynes said that his goal going into this season was to go undefeated and win state.

"I have done all right," he said. This year Haynes is 27-2.

Haynes said he does not know what type of competition he will face in his matches the rest of the year, but that Cibola may be one of the toughest.

After graduation, Haynes said he hopes to get a scholarship to wrestle in college, possibly ASU.

Gene, a junior at Pinon High School, scored 28 points and had 14 of her teams' 31 steals last week in a win against Chinle.
Gene also contributed two assists and five rebounds before fouling out in the Eagles 59-51 win over Chinle. She scored nine of her teams' 18 points in the first quarter and scored the first seven points of the third quarter.

"It is a real honor," Gene said of being picked as the Athlete of the Week. "I never thought I would be picked."

Gene said that her team, which is 14-4 has had an up and down season, where some days they play well and others they can not keep their mind on the game.

"But I am just out there having fun," she said. Gene said that she does not keep track of her team's record or her stats and that she is just out playing basketball to have fun.

"I am having a blast playing teams from around the area and I am just out there having fun playing the game."

She said that her goal for this season is to be a better defensive player and to show better sportsmanship. "Last year I had some problems defensively."

Gene said that her goal for the team is to work with the other players and to give a full game. "Our goal this year is to hustle for a full game and to work with each other. We have had a few games where we played a full quarter or two, but no full games yet."

After high school, Gene said she plans on playing basketball no matter where she ends up. "Hopefully I can play ball for a big time college," she said.

"If not I will just play in the back yard. I just play the game for the fun of it. Stats and records don't mean anything if you don't have fun."

Gene also said she would like to be able to go out and see the world. "I want to do what most people my age want to do, go out and see the world, see new things. Mainly just to have fun."

Chinle boxers gain prominence

Santiago Ramos
Staff Sports Writer

CHINLE, Ariz. — In addition being the home of the famous Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Chinle, Ariz. is also quietly gaining a reputation for producing national boxing champions.

The Damon Bahe Boxing Club Inc. has produced a total of 13 national boxing champions since 1982, nine in the last two years.
Jason Damon Bahe and Benny Yazzie of Keams Canyon, Ariz. were the club's first two national boxing champions in 1982.
Bahe was an all-Indian national boxing champion in the 80 lbs. junior division while Yazzie was the national champion in the 132 lbs. novice division. After a drought of 11 years, the Damon Bahe Boxing Club finally had a pair of national champions with Calvin Dominguez and Jeffrey Martinez in 1993. Dominguez boxed in the 132 lbs. junior division Silver Gloves while Martinez, who was national champion in 1993 and 1994, fought in the 139 lbs. junior division Silver Gloves. Pete Bitsui also was the Silver Gloves national champion in the 147 lbs. junior division.

The club was honored with five national champions in 1999 with Lowell Bahe at 139 lbs. junior division Silver Gloves and also at the All Indian Nationals; Jerold Tsosie in 1999 and 2000 at 70 and 80 lbs. junior division; William Tsosie III at 119 lbs.
junior division; and Pete Gilmore of Kayenta, Ariz. who is now fighting pro, at 156 lbs. open division.

Five more national champions from the club have already been crowned national champions this year with Jerold Tsosie at 80 lbs. junior division; Nora Bahe at 119 lbs. intermediate division female class; Calene Bahe at 139 lbs. open division female class; Christen Lewis at 106 lbs. junior division female class and Rolly Don Walker at 55 lbs. bantam division.

Club coach Cal Bahe, who is a former state and regional boxing champion who was second in the 132 lbs. novice lightweight division of the Golden Gloves, says that recent success in the ring has made the boxing club even more popular.

"We've had a good success record in this area," said the 54-year-old Bahe whose son Lowell has been national champion twice in 1999 and 2000. "They knew we have a good (boxing) program."

Surprisingly Bahe points out that two-thirds of the boxers are female.

"There's not much for the girls to do," Bahe says. "And in the Navajo upbringing it's the women or the girls that are the head of the household so they have to learn to be aggressive."

Bahe explained that he took over the boxing club which started in 1961 from his uncle Lee Damon when he passed away in 1978.

"I used to help him as an assistant," Bahe said. "When he passed away I took it over a year later. We didn't travel much like we do now. We used to compete with clubs from Gallup, Farmington, Grants and Cuba. But we didn't go year-round like we do now."

The Bahe Damon Boxing Club started training year-round about 12 to 13 years ago when the club started competing at national boxing tournaments.

Bahe says that he is in the process of helping organize a Native American boxing team that will compete at international competitions.

"It just started this year and I'm just one of the coaches."

During a recent competition against Finland, the Native American team had a pair of champions and both turned out to be from the area with Grant John of Shiprock and Doug Yazzie of Chinle.

The club returned from competing at the state tournament in Phoenix, Dec. 16 and came away with six titles and one second.
Taking state titles were Brian Sam of the Yazzie Club at 165 lbs. junior division, Duke Yazzie of the Yazzie Club at 178 lbs.
senior division; Jordan Shorty at 55 lbs. bantam division; Christen Lewis at 90 lbs. junior division; Nora Bahe at 139 lbs.
female division and Lowell Bahe at 147 lbs. intermediate division. Rolly Don Walker finished second at 60 lbs. bantam division.

The boxing club has 49 beginning boxers in the junior high and elementary level. Bahe says that the boxers are sponsored by the 21st Century Learning Center in Chinle which buys the equipment. Bahe says there is no charge for the kids. The boxers work out at the Chinle Elementary School, Chinle Junior High and the Bahe home gym eack week. The club has about 10 advanced boxers that compete all the time, are insured and travel to competitions all over the country.

The club, Bahe explains, competes in the Region 8 with the states of New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, California and Nevada. The winner of the competition advances to compete at the USA Nationals Silver Gloves in Kansas City Feb. 7-11. The All Indian Nationals have been held in Minnesota and North Dakota.

When the club has any boxers that qualifies for nationals the club gets $300 per boxer from the Navajo Division of Youth to help out with traveling expenses. Bahe says the schools also chip in for state and regional competitions. The club also sponsors dances to raise money for travel to the various boxing competitions.

"It gets bigger every year," Bahe said. "Next year we're expanding to Many Farms."

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Finances in Cibola look very grim

Tom Purdom
Staff Writer

GRANTS — When one needs a person to paint a dismal picture with words, just ask Cibola County Manager Bob Ortiz to talk about the county's financial outlook.

"If someone moved here from Sandoval County they would expect the same level of county services they got in Sandoval County, but they just won't find it here in Cibola County," Ortiz said. "Our tax base is not sufficient to meet our needs."

For months Ortiz talked in commission meetings about rising county jail inmate costs. Cibola County contracts with Corrections Corporation of America to house county inmates. The increased costs caused the county to investigate the possibility of building its own jail facility.

Ortiz said he asked for proposals on turnkey operations from companies offering financing, construction and operation of jails. He said two proposals were received and must be reviewed by a yet-to-be-selected committee...

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Greenhouse sale needs clear title

Tom Purdom
Staff Writer

GRANTS — The $23.8 million Colorado Greenhouse will undergo a legal proceeding at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday on the steps of the Cibola County Courthouse to clear up the title so the property can be sold.

Farm Credit Services bankrolled the hydroponic tomato growing greenhouse in 1998 and the venture failed after only about a year in business.

On Dec. 1, 2000, Colorado Greenhouse was placed in foreclosure by the 13th Judicial District Court.

Farm Credit Services, now called Production Credit Association (PAC), wants to clear up the title so the greenhouse can be sold if that is PCA's intention. Milan attorney Bruce Boynton has been appointed the special master for the deal...

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Deaths

Joseph Sanchez

GALLUP — Services for Joseph Sanchez, 53, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 10, at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. Father Ulric Pax will officiate. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Cemetery.

Rosary will be recited at Rollie Mortuary at 7 p.m. tonight.

Sanchez died Dec. 28 in Gallup. He was born Nov. 23, 1947, in Gallup.

Survivors include his mother, Nora Dimas of Gallup; brother, Bobby Dimas; sisters, Arlene Alonzo of Gamerco, Brenda Sanchez of Belen and Joyce Baca and Edwina Young, both of Gallup.

Sanchez was preceded in death by his father, Joseph Sanchez Sr.

Pallbearers will be Vincent Alonzo, Fermine Chavez, Julian Estrada, Robert Estrada, Tommy J. Flores and Anthony Olguin.

Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Billy Yazzie

FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. — Services for Billy Yazzie, 68, will be held at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Fort Defiance. Father Martan Rademaker will officiate. Burial will follow at Fort Defiance Cemetery.

Yazzie died Jan. 6 in Fort Defiance. He was born Aug. 3, 1932, in Steamboat, Ariz., into One Who Walks Around Another for the Water Edge People Clan.

Yazzie was employed with P&M Coal Mining Co., retiring from there. He also worked with Window Rock School Field House and the railroad.

Survivors include his wife, Rose Yazzie of Fort Defiance; sons, Benjamin Noble of Sterling, Colo., and Stanley Smith and Anthony Yazzie, both of Window Rock; daughters, Ruth Ella Begay of Ganado, Ariz., Bessie Pete of Phoenix and Arlene Yazzie and Darlene Yazzie, both of Window Rock; brothers, David Yazzie of Rigby, Idaho, and Don Yazzie of Las Cruces; sisters, Mary Hedin of Lake Wood, Colo., Sarah Noon of Shiprock and Lottie Tsosie and Louise Yazzie, both of Fort Defiance; 27 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Yazzie was preceded in death by parents, Jim Willie and Marie Y. Wauneka; sons, Alvin Yazzie and Billy K. Yazzie Jr.; and brothers, Johnson Wauneka, Wilson Wauneka, Jimmie Yazzie and Sammy Yazzie.

Pallbearers will be Shannon Darden, Lyman Davidson, Cody Noon, Adrian Tsosie, Randy Wauneka and Wayne Wauneka.

Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Dr. Williams Morgan Sr.

FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. — Services for William Morgan Sr., 85, will be held at noon Wednesday, Jan. 10, at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament. Father Martan Rademaker will officiate. Burial will follow at Gallup City Cemetery.

Morgan died Jan. 6, 2001, in Fort Defiance. He was born May 15, 1915 in Red Rock into the Black Streak Forest People for the Meadow People.

Morgan graduated from Fort Wingate High School. He received the Humanitarian Award from the state of New Mexico for liguistics and also an award from the Navajo Nation. He was the co-author of the Navajo Dictionary and author of numerous Navajo children's stories. Morgan received an honorary doctorate from the University of New Mexico. He was an interpreter and instructor of the Navajo language for Cornell University, University of New Mexico and Navajo Community College. He was the designer of the logo for the Navajo Community College.

His hobbies included fishing and watching sports on television.

Survivors include wife, Desbah Dickson Morgan; sons, Wilbert L. Morgan, Anthony D. Morgan, William Morgan Jr., Russell H. Morgan, Clifton G. Morgan and Stanley E. Morgan; daughters, Maxine M. Bahe, Cynthia M. Morgan and Delphine M.
Kaywanwytewa; 19 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.

Morgan was preceded in death by parents, Joe and Bah Morgan; brother, Thomas Morgan; daughter, Dorothea Johnson; and a granddaughter.

Pallbearers will be William Morgan Jr., Russell Morgan, Clifton Morgan, Loren Johnson, Jeremy Morgan and Dominic Johnson.

The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Red Rock Chapter House.

Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Wilbert Tsosie

NASCHITTI — Services for Wilbert Tsosie, 85 will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 10, at the Christian Reformed Church, Naschitti. Phillip Destea will officiate. Burial will follow at the community cemetery, Naschitti.

Visitation will be held today Cope Memorial Chapel.

Tsosie died Jan. 5 in Gallup. He was born June 26, 1915, in Naschitti into the Edge Water for the Red House People Clan.

Tsosie was employed with the railroad. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was also a bullrider and a rancher.

Survivors include his wife, Mary M. Tsosie of Naschitti; sons, Kee Tsosie and Wilson Manuelito, both of Naschitti; daughters, Julia John, Eileen Scott, Sadie Tsosie and Pearl Slivers, all of Naschitti, and Ella Mae Tsosie of Albuquerque; sister, Grace Carl of Naschitti; 26 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.

Tsosie was preceded in death by his son, Edison Tsosie, and brothers, Yazzie Tsosie and John Tsosie.

Pallbearers will be Harvey John, Marrin Peshlakai, Brandon Manuelito, Paul Tsosie, Michael Dennison and Melvin Peshlakai.

Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Seth Brian James

WINDOW ROCK — Services for Seth Brian James, infant, will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 10, at Rollie Mortuary. Pastor Ray Dean Baker will officiate. Burial will follow at the Gallup City Cemetery.

The infant died Jan. 6 in Gallup. He was born Jan. 6, 2001, in Gallup into the Tangle People Clan for the Bitter Water People Clan.

Survivors include parents, Brian and Michelle Opal James both of Window Rock; maternal grandparents, Sharon Manning of Fort Defiance, Ariz., and Tom Manning of Gallup and paternal grandparents, JoAnn Wauneka of Window Rock and Leonard
James of Fort Defiance, Ariz.

Pallbearers will be Reggie Jame and Tom Manning III.

Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Ruth Gingold

ALBUQUERQUE — Services for Ruth Gingold, 91, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 12, at Congregation Nahalat Shalom, 3606 Rio Grande Blvd. N.W.

Gingold died Jan. 2 in Albuquerque. She was born July 16, 1909, in New York City, N.Y.

Gingold moved to Gallup in 1945. While in Gallup, she and her husband ran Karl's Shoe Store. She was a member of the
Gallup Women's Club, charter member of Gallup Does and a member of Hadassah.

Survivors include her daughter, Judi Gingold of Albuquerque and a grandson, Aaron Price of Lowell, Mass.

Gingold was preceded in death by her husband, Mike Gingold.

Lillian P. Brown

STEAMBOAT, Ariz. — Services for Lillian P. Brown, 67, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 10, at Baptist Church, Ganado, Ariz. Pastor Willie John will officiate. Burial will follow on family land, Steamboat.

Brown died Jan. 6 in Chinle, Ariz. She was born Feb. 1, 1932, in Ganado, Ariz., into the Black Streak Wood for the Edgewater People Clan.

Brown attended school in St. Michaels, Ariz., and in Shimawa, Ore. She was a housemaker all her life and did rug weaving.

Survivors includ her son, Dale Brown of Steamboat; brothers, Henry Brown of California, Joe Brown of Cornfields, Ariz., Kee Brown of Whitecone, Ariz., and Thomas Brown of Farmington; sisters, Frances John of Steamboat and Grace Begay of Aztec; and four grandchildren.

Brown was preceded in death by her parents, Belin Dale Bahe and Annabelle Brown; brother, George C. Brown; and sister, Sadie Brown.

Pallbearers will be Emerson Brown, Leroy Brown, Robert Tracey Edwin Brown, Luther Brown and Daniel Watchman.

Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Max Johnny Padilla

GALLUP — Services for Max Johnny Padilla, 53, will be announced at a later date.

Padilla died Jan. 6 in Gallup. He was born March 28, 1947, in Albuquerque.

Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.