Council see-saws on Appreciation Day
Decision on funds delayed
Bill Donovan
Staff Writer
GALLUP — The Gallup City Council stopped short Tuesday in
giving the sponsors of Native American Appreciation Day the financial
support they wanted.
But the council didn't close the door on the idea of giving the
event as much as $10,000. The council agreed to wait another week
to try and find the funds which sponsors of the event say they
need to put on the event this year.
Ellis Tanner, who had gone to the council after the Gallup Chamber
of Commerce decided to drop its support, left the meeting frustrated
and disappointed but still hopeful the council would come through.
"I'm still trying to be positive about all of this,"
he said.
Tanner was visibly frustrated during the meeting, during which
city leaders see-sawed on the issue of how much support could
be given to this year's event.
Tanner wanted a $25,000 commitment, $15,000 of it from in-kind
services and the other $10,000 in cash. This is in comparison
with support last year in the neighborhood of $45,000, with $25,000
of it in cash.
But City Manager David Ruiz said last year was a different situation
since the city could give the funds to the Chamber of Commerce.
This year, Tanner was in charge and the state had very specific
rules prohibiting the city from donating city funds to individuals.
Ruiz said the money would have to come from the city's lodger's
tax and be used solely for advertising and promotion.
He pointed out, however, that most of the funds from the lodger's
tax was also committed. In fact, revenue from the tax was only
about $3,700 over the level from a year ago.
Pena urged Tanner and his supporters to consider allowing the
city to increase its in-kind service but Tanner said that not
only do event coordinators need the money, but it was time for
Gallup to send a message to Native Americans who shop regularly
in Gallup that they are appreciated.
Councilor Pat Butler, who owns an office supply company in town,
said his talks with friends in Window Rock revealed that a lot
of Navajo people would rather see businesses show their appreciation
every day of the year by providing restrooms for out-of-city visitors
and have their staff be courteous.
"They would rather see this kind of appreciation daily than
have one day set aside for Gallup to show its appreciation."
he said.
Tanner, however, said that Native Americans will be looking at
Gallup officials to see what they do and he urged the city to
find the money somewhere.
Pena bristled at the idea that the city was not showing its appreciation,
pointing out that the city had been a major factor in the holding
of the event for the past two years.
He said that he was really upset at a recent editorial in the
Gallup Independent criticizing the city for not supporting the
event. "The city has continued to support the event,"
Pena said.
He asked several times during the debate just how much support
the Independent has shown to the event, at one time urging Tanner
when he visited various merchants, to be sure to see officials
at the Independent to see if they would contribute to the event.
It was later brought out that while four local radio stations
had contributed $5,000 each in free radio time to the event, the
sponsors of the event had to pay the Independent $1,800 last year
for ads.
Ruiz stressed during the debate that the city couldn't contribute
anything to the event as long as its sponsors were from the private
sector. Any contribution has to come through the lodger's tax
and state law requires that money to be used only for advertising
and promotion.
Don Gonzales, station manager for KGAK, said that the radio station
was willing to act as a go-between to get the problem resolved.
He said his station planned to give the event thousands and thousands
of dollars of free advertising.
He suggested that the radio station charge for the advertising
and agreed that whatever funds it did receive from the lodger's
tax would be turned back over to the event so it could be used
to pay for other expenses.
Pena said that he wasn't sure that this was legal but agreed to
seek a legal opinion on the matter.
In the meantime, Ruiz was directed by Pena to try and come up
with more lodging tax revenue and report back next Tuesday when
the council would give sponsors of the event their final answer.
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County agrees to lure business with tax
break
Bill Donovan
Staff Writer
GALLUP — The McKinley County Commission agreed Tuesday to give
a Philadelphia company a tax break if it established a plant here
in Gallup.
Gallup is on a short list of three New Mexico cities now trying to
get the company to set up operations here.
Cynthia Kuhn, secretary for the McKinley Development Foundation, said
her group, along with city and county officials, have been talking
with the company for the past several months.
She asked that the name of the company be withheld during preliminary
negotiations because allowing it to be made public may affect Gallup's
chances of getting the plant.
The company, which has an excellent reputation, could provide as many
as 431 jobs and annual salaries of $8.5 million. The company, she
said, helps credit card companies get people who are delinquent to
catch up with their payments by calling them with reminders when payments
become past due.
Commissioner Ben Shelly worried about just what kind of tax break
the company wanted and worried that if the company did come here,
that it would bypass local workers and bring in its own employees.
Kuhn, however, stressed that as many as 95 percent of the employees
would come from local workers.
The foundation, which was created to help bring economic development
to the area, is proposing that the county give the company a break
on its taxes for its equipment. This would cost the county some $6,200
the first year and less each of the following four years as the equipment
was depreciated.
Kuhn said the foundation expects to learn in the next 30-60 days where
the company has decided to set up its plant.
RMCH money
In other business, the commission discussed the question of how much
money to provide to Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital in mill levy
money next year.
Voters in the county voted last November to give the commission authority
to impose up to a 2 mill levy to be used by the hospital for improvements
to the hospital.
The commission has to decide just how much it should impose for the
year that begins July 1 but that decision has been hung up over discussions
between the commission and the hospital over allowing county representatives
to be on the hospital's finance, professional development and executive
committees.
The request is based on feelings by commission members that they aren't
getting enough information from the hospital about spending policies.
On Tuesday, Earnest Becenti Jr., one of the county representatives,
objected to reports that he and the others were giving inaccurate
information to the commission.
He argued that the inaccurate information was coming from other people
whom commission members were talking to.
Commission member Ben Shelly said that hospital officials were agreeable
to putting the county representatives on the board but said that this
would take up to a year because of the hospital's bylaws.
While he wasn't happy with this long a delay, he said that he would
go along with it as long as the county turned over half of the mill
levy to the hospital and kept the other half in escrow until the hospital
complied with the commission's request.
But later County Attorney Doug Decker said this was illegal.
The commission had a right to decide whatever level it wanted for
the mill levy but once this was approved, all of the funds had to
go to the hospital. If the county approved the entire 2 mills, this
would generate about $1.4 million a year for the hospital.
If the commission decided to reduce the mill levy by half, it could
do this but the other half of the mil levy would just be lost to the
hospital.
The matter is expected to come up again at the next meeting of the
commission.
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Forest land swap finished
Checkerboard comes to end
Tom Purdom
Staff Writer
GRANTS — The famed checkerboard region of Cibola National Forest
quietly came to an end last week in a massive land
swap between the United States Forest Service and Lovington businessman
Lionel Burns and the L-Bar Ranch.
National Forest Service negotiators have been actively working on
the land swap for the past five years and the exchange has been in
the minds of the landowners for about 10 years.
The famed checkerboard has long been a point of contention among the
elk hunting fraternity, and even with the swap, the question remains
as to who got the better deal.
Around the turn of the century the checkerboard earned its name when
the federal government allocated land to the railroads for the transcontinental
railroad. Located some 25 miles northeast of Grants in McKinley County,
the checkerboard became blocks of railroad land in between blocks
of forest reserve lands.
When the federal government created the national forests' forerunner
called Forest Reserves in the late 1800s and early 1900s, what is
now the Cibola National Forest Mount Taylor District was one of them.
When the national forest was officially named, the portions of the
chekerboard which were forest reserves became national forest lands.
The railroads eventually sold lands to private concerns, thus creating
the checkerboard between federal and private lands.
In all, the checkerboard represents 23,519 acres 12,200 acres of it
in private hands and 11,319 acres belonging to the United States Forest
Service.
The Forest Service officially announced the end of the negotiations
and the land swap completion Tuesday.
Larry Cosper, Forest Service wildlife range and watershed staff and
acting forest supervisor, called it "a good deal."
The Forest Service swapped 11,319 acres of its land in the checkerboard
area for 12,200 acres of private land. The swaps makes contiguous
the Forest Service land running generally along the northern sections
of the previous checkerboard lands.
In return the southern portions of the former checkerboard which were
Forest Service land are now in private hands.
Hunters long argued that owners of the private land blocked access
to the checkerboard area. Hunters now are complaining that the private
landowners in the swap got the better elk habitat land and the public
got the short end of the stick.
James Baca, in an Associated Press story on the land swap, said the
decision was bad for the state and not in the public interest. Baca
is president of the Albuquerque-based New Mexico Hunters' Association.
He said the Forest Service was "railroaded" into the swap
and that public opinion was not included in the decision. Several
years ago the L-Bar Ranch filed suit against the Forest Service over
roads, saying the federal government should relinquish the rights
to the roads because there had been no road maintenance and motorists
were tearing up private lands.
The lawsuit led to negotiations which ended in the land exchange approved
last year by Eleanor Towns, National Forest Service southwest national
forester.
Cosper said nonsense, that several public meetings were held on the
land swap during which the public commented on the proposed exchange.
Cosper said hunters who object to the swap are most likely hunters
whose traditional hunting lands were lost in the swap to private lands.
As far as elk are concerned, Cosper said the animal is a highly mobile
species. Most of the land in the swap is in a high plateau area. "I
talked with one of our people yesterday who was up in the area and
he saw numerous elk up there," Cosper said.
With the acquisition it will give additional opportunity for wildlife
management in the area, experts say.
The areas can be accessible, but the road into it is rough. Cosper
said the Forest Service now has a road management plan for the area.
The high plateau contains all species of trees found in the Mount
Taylor area, plus stands of oak trees and some huge, open meadows
which habitat wildlife favor.
"As a checkerboard, it was almost impossible to manage,"
Cosper said. "It was very, very difficult to tell where the public
land ended and the private land began. Now, all that has changed."
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Council gives sports panel thumbs up
Bill Donovan
Staff Writer
GALLUP — The Gallup City Council gave the local sports commission
a vote of confidence Tuesday.
The impetus for that vote came from a very unusual source councilor
Charlie Chavez, who had come into the meeting with a plan to ask the
council to abolish it.
Chavez still supported the abolishment of the commission when the
vote was taken he was the only council member to say nay to a vote
of confidence but his speech at the end changed the course of the
council, which seemed on the verge of tabling the item.
He explained at the beginning of the debate that he felt the commission
over the nine years of its existence had lost sight of why it was
created.
As expected, much of his objections centered around the controversy
surrounding the Gallup Little League and the Boys and Girls Club.
GLL operated the program until this year when the council, after a
recommendation from both the sports commission and the city manager,
turned it over to the Boys and Girls Club.
Chavez said he was especially upset at the commission because it had
agreed last November to give his brother, Louis, who headed the GLL,
time to pay off the organization's debts. Two months later, the commission
flip-flopped.
He was also upset at the sport commission for trying to micromanage
the city's parks and recreation department by instructing them on
matters ranging from watering the golf course to handling obstacles
at the local tennis court.
"They have created a lot of hate and discontent over the years,"
Chavez said. "I just don't feel they are following their charter."
James Rich, chairman of the commission, said he didn't feel that the
commission intended to micromanage anyone.
"Our intent all along was to serve the community," he said,
adding that while the commission at times made recommendations to
the parks and recreation department, there was never any intent to
dictate to anyone.
He said he felt the commission has managed to serve its purpose of
handling minor issues to give the city council a chance to resolve
the bigger issues.
"This sports commission is definitely a necessity for this community,"
he said.
Mayor John Pena agreed that the commission should not be abolished,
saying that if the commission is not doing its job, commission members
needed to be told that by the council.
"If they are doing wrong, call it to their attention," he
said.
While Pat Butler didn't comment during the debate, the other two councilors,
Louis Bonaguidi and Bill Nechero both said that they still didn't
have enough information about the matter and suggested that the matter
be tabled.
Nechero pointed out that three of the nine positions on the commission
are vacant and five of the remaining six have their terms expiring
at the end of May.
"Maybe we should wait and find out how many of these individuals
want to continue on the commission," he said.
But Chavez spoke out against tabling, saying it wasn't fair to the
commission members who wouldn't know whether the commission had a
future.
Since it was obvious that Chavez didn't have the support to abolish
the commission, he declined to make a resolution, saying if he did,
the council would have to vote twice. So Bonaguidi made the motion
to have the council issue a vote of support and it passed.
Chavez said he felt he had something of a victory since one of his
goals to at least get the council to look at the sports commission
and what it was doing had occurred.
It appears that the commission and the council have also agreed to
open the lines of communication with the commission providing regular
reports to the council.
Lady Bengals capitalize on walks in district win
Carrie Loretto
Sports Editor
GALLUP — The Gallup Lady Bengals exploited Valley's weakness
to rally past the visiting Lady Vikings 9-8 at the Sports Complex
on a blustery Tuesday afternoon.
The Bengals capitalized on nine walks in the final two innings, including
a bases loaded walk to Natalia Reeder which allowed pinch runner Toni
Hernandez to score the winning run.
"We've had leads against ninety percent of our opponents going
into the last two innings and our pitching lets us down, that's been
the story the whole season, pitching, a breakdown by our pitcher in
the later innings. We have no one to come in and pick up the pieces,"Valley
coach Rudy Pinzon said.
When starting pitcher Felicia Gurule (7-8) walked her third batter,
Pinzon replaced her with Sarah Hostetler. The move backfired as Hostetler's
lack of control resulted in the Bengals scoring three runs on several
wild pitches. Hostetler lasted only three batters walking two of them.
Pinzon brought Gurule back in to pitch and she walked another batter
before registering her sixth strike out still leading 7-6.
"I could see that Felicia was already starting to fall apart
so we had to try something,"Pinzon said about the switch.
Gurule then singled to lead off the top of the seventh and Valley
brought her around to score as she advanced on a bunt, a wild pitch
and a sacrifice fly by Pat Baca to give the Vikings an 8-6 lead.
Gurule then threw out Tiara Sanchez on a groundout and forced another
infield hit by Socorro Herrera to start the bottom of the seventh.
However, a throwing error by shortstop Denise Martinez put Herrera
on base with just one out. On the next play, Martinez hesitated on
another infield hit by Brandie Olivar allowing Herrera to beat her
toss to second base. That put the tying runs on first and second with
one out.
Crystal Hoskie tied the game with a blooper into shallow right field
with both Herrera and Olivar scoring on the RBI single.
Hoskie ended up on second on the throw home by rightfielder Jenn Nicol.
Toni Hernandez was brought in to run for Hoskie. With the snow blowing
in from the southwest making it difficult for Gurule to keep the ball
and her hands dry, Hernandez walked her way home after Gurule delivered
12 straight balls.
"We were a little more patient, but we also tried to crowd the
plate to see if she would struggle and she kinda did, then when they
pulled her, the other girl we knew wasn't a pitcher. She's an athlete,
but she isn't a pitcher. so we knew that if we could stay on her that
we would be alright,"Gallup coach Marty Alderete said of the
Bengals' rally."In the back of my mind I knew they would bring
Felicia back in to close it and she struggled there in the seventh
inning. That last batter it seemed like she just wanted to get out
of the snow."
Intermittent snow showers along with strong wind gusts created the
blustery conditions.
The Vikings jumped on top early as Gallup righthander Melinda Alderete
had problems with her control. Alderete walked the first two batters
she faced. Sarah Hostetler then stole second and third before scoring
on a wild pitch.
The Bengals tied the game in their half of the first with an RBI single
to rightfield by Carla Parades knocking in lead off batter Susie Matsutani
who had walked.
Valley then jumped ahead 4-1 with a two-run double into rightfield
by Vanessa Ortega. Alderete had again walked Hostetler and Yamina
Ciballos. Nicol scored on a passed ball with two outs.
Nicol led off the fiftrh inning with a triple into the gap in right
centerfield then scored on Ortega's double into left center. An error
on an attempted pick off attempt by catcher Matsutani to second allowed
Ortega to score from third when Bengal shortstop Jennifer Christiansen
ducked allowing the ball to get through.
Ortega added another RBI double in the sixth inning to give Valley
its' six-run lead.
Ortega led Valley's seven-hit attack going 3-for-4 with four RBI.
Nicole went 2-for-4.
Alderete finished the game with seven walks, seven hits and six strikeouts.
Gurule registered the loss scattering six hits and striking out six.
She ended up with 10 walks after having only given up three in the
first five innings.
Olivar was Gallup's leading hitter going 2-for-4.
The win snapped a three-game losing streak for the Bengals who are
now 10-6 overall, 2-3 in district.
"We'll take it, we finished our first round of district 2-3,
we very easily could've been 3-2. We're just going to play hard the
last two and a half weeks and go from there,"Alderete said.
The Bengals will face Albuquerque High Friday at Los Altos Park.
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Pinon area man dies in rollover
Jim Maniaci
Diné Bureau
WINDOW ROCK — A 43-year-old Pinon Chapter man died April 4 when
he was ejected from his pickup truck as it rolled three times in a
one-vehicle alcohol-related accident.
The Chinle Criminal Investigations District report identified him
as Benjamin Kaye, who lived about three miles east of Pinon.
Kaye, headed north on Bureau of Indian Affairs Route 65 near the junction
of BIA Route 4 (the Whippoorwill junction), apparently traveled too
fast to negotiate a curve, went off the road, overcorrected and rolled
three times.
The detective's report said Kaye was not using his seatbelt and thus
was thrown out of the speeding 2000 Sonoma extended cab pickup truck...
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Ramah boys dominate meet
Ramah boys, Rehoboth girls win invite
Abelita Rose Freeland
Staff Sports Writer
GALLUP — The Ramah boys dominated the almost all the events taking
the top finishing and the Rehoboth Lady Lynx' took first place at
the Rehoboth Invite Tuesday afternoon at the Gallup Public Stadium.
With the weather cold winds and the continuous snow coming and going
the Ramah boys rules the every event but the distance events, beating
their nearest competitor, Valley-Sanders, by 34 points.
Rehoboth took third with 60.5 points, Zuni in fourth with 38.5 and
in fifth with 26 points was Gallup Catholic.
"We have a pretty solid field," said Lynx coach Don Tamminga.
"We were really tough and showed a lot of depth. Tonight was
just not a great qualifying meet..."
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Faction tells Navajos: Face government
Larry Di Giovanni
Staff Writer
GALLUP — Six members of the grass-roots Diné Sovereignty
Defense Association agreed to an interview on a number of topics
ranging from water, their most precious resource, to how the Navajo
people can take their government back.
They also took strong exception to what they consider non-Navajo
lawyer control of all critical matters facing the tribe and statements
by Council Speaker Edward T. Begay in last week's tribal publication.
In his letter, the speaker called the Navajo Nation a "representative
democracy."
Those interviewed last weekend included several elders. They were
Leonard Gilmore, Christine Begay, elders Lee BeGaye, 84, and Robert
Begay, 70, both of Coppermine, Seymour Tso, 72, of Cameron, and
still another source who wished to remain anonymous for now...
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County manager's job may be on line
Special meeting to discuss Ortiz
Tom Purdom
Staff Writer
GRANTS — A special Cibola County Commission meeting will be
held April 23 to decide the fate of County Manager Bob Ortiz, whose
job appears to be on the line.
It was evident from the start of Monday's commission meeting that
something was afoot when Commissioner James Meisner asked for a
change in the agenda. He said he wanted to put personnel matters
involving Ortiz's annual evaluation from a behind-closed-doors session
into an open session heard by the public.
When the evaluation takes place, it will be the first time Ortiz
will have been evaluated since he took the county manager job about
two years ago.
Commissioner Bennie Cohoe said the evaluation was a personnel matter
and should be heard in private...
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Ex-election board faces pre-trial
Jim Maniaci
Diné Bureau
WINDOW ROCK — Seven of the eight people the Legislative Branch
leadership feels committed crimes by not holding the tribal chapter-level
general election in August have an important day in court Thursday.
The seven members of the Navajo Board of Election Supervisors are
scheduled for pre-trial conferences in Window Rock District Court
as Judge T.J. Holgate wades through a pile of motions and responses
as the prosecution and defense maneuver for better positions in
the controversial case.
A pre-trial conference is a plea bargaining session for the prosecution
and defense, if they agree, to submit a proposed settlement or punishment
to the judge for approval.
The complaints ask the court to make the eight repay more than $150,000
transferred by a committee to the election effort about three weeks
before the aborted election, fine each $3,700, put each in jail
for a year and kick out of office permanently the five whose terms
haven't expired...
Ramah boys dominate meet
Ramah boys, Rehoboth girls win invite
Abelita Rose Freeland
Staff Sports Writer
GALLUP — The Ramah boys dominated the almost all the events
taking the top finishing and the Rehoboth Lady Lynx' took first
place at the Rehoboth Invite Tuesday afternoon at the Gallup Public
Stadium.
With the weather cold winds and the continuous snow coming and going
the Ramah boys rules the every event but the distance events, beating
their nearest competitor, Valley-Sanders, by 34 points.
Rehoboth took third with 60.5 points, Zuni in fourth with 38.5 and
in fifth with 26 points was Gallup Catholic.
"We have a pretty solid field," said Lynx coach Don Tamminga.
"We were really tough and showed a lot of depth. Tonight was
just not a great qualifying meet..."
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Deaths
Douglas Roy Gaddy
HOUCK, Ariz. — Services for Douglas Gaddy, 18, will be held at
2 p.m. Thursday, April 12, at Rollie Mortuary Palm Chapel. Pastor
Joe M. Lee will officiate. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Park.
Gaddy died April 8 in Albuquerque. He was born March 17, 1983, in
Black Rock into the Water Edge People Clan for the Coyote Pass People
Clan.
Gaddy attended Wingate High School, participating in wrestling. He
planned a career in the military. His hobby was basketball.
Survivors include his parents, Lewis and Aileen Gaddy, both of Houck;
brothers, Andrew Roy Gaddy and Travis Roy Gaddy, both of Houck; sisters,
Heather Rose Gaddy of Houck and Michelle Richards of Kileen, Texas;
and grandfather, Don Joe of Cousins.
Gaddy was preceded in death by his grandparents, Rose Ida Gaddy, Roy
Gaddy and Caroline Joe.
Pallbearers will be Robert Emerson, Gabriel Francis, Lawrence Holmes,
Phillip Joe, Titus Nelson and Fran Pawlowski.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Mary Davis
REHOBOTH — Services for Mary Davis, 101, will be held at 10 a.m.
Thursday, April 12, at Cope Memorial Chapel. Howard McCormick will
officiate. Burial will follow on family land, Rehoboth.
Davis died April 8 in Gallup. She was born Feb. 10, 1900, in Rehoboth
into the Towering House Clan for the Zuni Clan.
Davis was a homemaker and a rancher.
Survivors include daughter, Irene Willie of Rehoboth; nine grandchildren,
21 great-grandchildren and seven great-great grandchildren.
Davis was preceded in death by her husband, Frank Davis; sons, Baheska
James, Kent James, and Willie James; and daughter, Kathleen James.
Pallbearers will be Bob Lee James, Leonard Willie, Albert Willie,
James Willie, Roland Lee James and Shawn Stevens.
The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services
at Church Rock Chapter House.
Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
George Halona Sr.
SO'SILA, Ariz. — Services for George Halona Sr., 69, will be
held at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 12, at Toh a be' e Full Gospel Church.
Hoskie Bryant will officiate. Burial will on So'sila family plot.
Halona died April 7 in Window Rock. He was born May 26, 1931, in Fort
Defiance into the Coyote Pass People Clan for the Salt Clan.
Halona completed grade school in Crystal. He worked with the Union
Pacific Railroad. He also did carpentry and mechanic work with various
construction companies. At the time of his death, he was a ranch hand
at family home in So'sila.
Survivors include his sons, George Halona Jr. of Albuquerque, Larry
Halona of Navajo, Anthony Halona of Fort Defiance and Benjamin Halona
of Crystal; daughters, Valorie H. Bahe of Whiskey Creek, Gloria Halona
of Navajo, Marlene Halona of Gallup, Arlene Halona of Salt Lake City,
Utah; parents, Fred Jones and Eleanor Jones of So'sila; brothers,
Johnson Jones, Jack Jones, Charles Jones, and Herman Jones, all of
So'sila; sisters, Alice Thacker and Marie Smith, both of Navajo, Anna
Goddard of Tacoma, Wash., and Lita Jones of So'sila; grandparents,
Joe and Carllota Wauneka; 33 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
Halona was preceded in death by his father, James Halona; son, Wilford
Halona; and sister Lorraine Jones.
Pallbearers will be George Halona Jr., Larry Halona, Benjamin Halona,
Benjamin Bitsilly, Tommy Thacker and Everett
Bigthumb.
The family will receive friends and relatives at Crystal Chapter following
burial services.
Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Sarah S. Bahe
SPENCER VALLEY — Services for Sarah Bahe, 67, will be held at
10 a.m. Thursday, April 12 at Rollie Mortuary- Palm Chapel in Gallup.
Charles Schoolcraft will officiate. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial
Park.
Bahe died April 7 in Gallup. She was born May 5, 1934, in Spencer
Valley into the Mountain Cove People for the Black Streak People Clans.
Bahe was a resident of Pretty Rock. She attended schools in Fort Wingate
and Mentmore. She was employed with Ora-Ida Potato Chip Factory in
Idaho for 16 years, the Ranch Kitchen as an assistant line cook and
as a silversmith, weaver and beadworker for numerous jewlery stores,.
Her hobbies were traveling, sightseeing and attending family functions.
Survivors include her husband, Naswood Bahe of Pretty Rock; sons,
James Bahe Sr. of Gamerco, Steven Bahe of Vanderwagen, and Jason Bahe,
Jerry Bahe and Jonathan Bahe, all of Pretty Rock; daughters, Evelyn
Yazzie and Marie Bahe, both of Pretty Rock; brothers, Leonard Spencer
of Coyote Canyon, Sammie Spencer of Twin Falls, Idaho, and Jim Joe
Spencer and Woody Spencer, both of Pretty Rock; sisters, Sally Jack
of Red Rock, Doris Lee of Spencer Valley and Elizabeth S. Yazzie of
Pretty Rock; 17 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Bahe was preceded in death by her parents, Sam Joe and Racheal B.
Spencer, and brothers, Kee Tso Spencer, Lee Spencer and Tommy Spencer.
Pallbearers will be James Bahe Sr., Jerry Bahe, Jonathan Bahe, Ray
Jack, Nathenial Tsosie and Arthur Yazzie Jr.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Katherine M. Etherton
GALLUP — Services for Katherine Etherton, 86, will be announced
at a later date.
Etherton died April 10 in Gallup. She was born Oct. 31, 1914, in Oklahoma.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Lester Ricky Mike Sr.
GALLUP — Services for Lester Mike Sr., 36, will be announced
at a later date.
Mike died April 9 in Gallup. He was born May 7, 1964, in Gallup into
the Towering House People Clan for the Red House People.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
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