Blood is clue to burglary
Andrea Egger
Staff Writer
GALLUP — Blood all over the kitchen and basement stairs
were the only clues of a burglary to a frightened Gallup woman.
Neighbors called Gallup Police after seeing someone climb out
of a window at the 200 block of Aztec Avenue, the home of Martha
Martinez, 43, around 6:15 p.m. Thursday. The man was wiping blood
off his arm with a rag, according to the police report.
Martinez had been watching TV and noticed nothing amiss until
a police officer was knocking on her door.
Then she told the officer she wondered why she had blood on her
floor. She said she heard some noises while she watched TV but
thought it was the roofers working.
The roofers also said they didn't see anyone.
Meanwhile, police saw Erwin Curley, 33, of Newcomb, walking on
Coal Avenue. He had a large amount of blood on his shirt.
Three officers stopped beside Curley, who got on his knees as
the officers got out of their police cars.
Med Star staff treated him and took him to Gallup Indian Medical
Center.
The neighbor who reported the burglary recognized Curley as the
burglar, according to the police report. Police arrested Curley
and charged him with burglary, a felony.
In other Gallup Police incident, a parked police car got damaged
after a Gallup man towing a trailer struck the front end of the
car.
Danny Jarzomkowski, 45, of East Highway 66, was cited for careless
driving after the collision at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, according to
a report released Friday.
The police car was parked south in front of Officer Harold Littlefield's
home in eastern Gallup. Jarzomkowski drove a white pickup truck
that had a flatbed trailer attached and a car on the trailer
east and struck the police car, damaging the let front fender
and causing the left front door to be jammed shut.
Jarzomkowski left a business card at Littlefield's front door.
Police later met with him at his office. He said he saw the police
car but thought he had enough room to clear it.
Besides the citation, officers said they also could have cited
him for leaving the scene of an accident. They told him he should
have remained at the accident scene and called police.
In other police news, McKinley County Sheriff's Department deputies
met at noon June 4 with Johnny Betsoi, of Mentmore, who was bleeding
from the head. Betsoi said his wife's boyfriend had struck him
on the head.
Betsoi drove to the home of his estranged wife, Sadie Betsoi,
32, in Gamerco, to have her sign some divorce papers. When he
got there, her boyfriend, Johnnie Curley, came out of the home
and exchanged words with Betsoi.
At one point, Curley picked up a rock and struck Betsoi in the
head with it.
Deputies arrested Curley and charged him with aggravated battery,
according to the report.
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Gallup-McKinley County struggles with
sex abuse
Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola
Special to the Independent
GALLUP — Through the current crisis facing the Catholic Church,
the American public has been forced into a national discussion about
the problem of sex offenders within our society. Now the Rehoboth
McKinley Christian Health Care Services (RMCHCS) wants to bring that
national discussion to the local level through a two-day conference
about the identification and treatment of sex offenders.
That local discussion is sorely needed here, said Mark Sanchez, a
contract specialist with RMCHCS who is helping to coordinate the
conference. According to Sanchez, the communities of Gallup, McKinley
County, and the surrounding Indian reservations are all struggling
to deal with high numbers of sex offenders. (According to the New
Mexico Department of Public Safety's "Sex Offender Information
Page" on the Internet, about four dozen people, all males, are
currently listed as sex
offenders in McKinley County.)
"Introduction to Sex Offenders: Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex
Offenders and Were Afraid to Ask!" will be offered on July 11-12 at the
Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital. A. Mervyn Davies, a licensed counselor
from Colorado, will conduct the training. According to information provided by
RMCHCS, Davies has extensive training and experience treating sex offenders and
domestic violence offenders. Pre-registrations by July 8 will cost $100, and
the conference is open to anyone. Late registration is $125.
Topics for the conference's first day are: Prevalence of Child Sexual
Abuse, Characteristics of Child Molesters, Differences of Treatment
with Sex Offenders and Other Clients, Assessment of Sexual Offenders,
Physiological Testing, and How to Interview. Topics for the second
day are: Denial, Treatment of Sex Offenders, Pharacotherapy, Polygraph,
and Supervision.
Because of the high rate of sex offenders locally, Sanchez said,
people who work in the health care, counseling, education, and law
enforcement professions are encouraged to attend. Professional credit
hours will be awarded to participants who attend the full workshop.
Through RMCHCS's mental health and substance abuse treatment programs,
Sanchez said, clinic staff members have increasingly realized that
many of their patients have been significantly affected by sexual
abuse - either as victims or as offenders.
Val Upshaw, a licensed alcohol and drug counselor with 20 years of
experience, has also been working with sex offenders for the last
three years at RMCHCS. Both Upshaw and Sanchez believe that high
percentages of alcoholics and drug addicts have been victims of sexual
abuse, particularly as children. Often when addicts become clean
and sober, they begin to deal with memories of the abuse.
During treatment, a number of recovering addicts also admit to being
sexual offenders, agreed Upshaw and Sanchez, and they need to receive
treatment for that as well as substance abuse. Upshaw cautioned,
however, that many sexual offenders do not have drug or alcohol problems,
and she estimated that about 80 percent of sex offenders molest or
assault their victims without being under the influence of drugs
or alcohol.</sub><cm+bd>The problem of denial<cm-bd>Denial
is a large part of the equation when it comes to sex offenders in
the community, added Sanchez and Upshaw. Sanchez believes most people
don't want to think about the reality of children being sexually
abused and the complex issue of trying to treat sex offenders.
"Nobody wants to talk about the offender," he said. In order to invest
treatment resources wisely, Sanchez believes society has to learn more about
sex offenders to determine which offenders are treatable, and which ones are
not. "I don't think we even know half of what we need to know about sex
offenders," he added.
Denial within families is a large part of the problem, Sanchez said.
Most sex offenders are related to the victim, he explained, or are
people who have been welcomed into the family circle. Families frequently
spend more effort protecting the offender than helping the victim,
he said.
"Most families protect each other," agreed Upshaw. "The families
do know it's going on," she added. Families in denial won't talk about the
sexual abuse, domestic violence, and substance abuse that is going on within
the family, Upshaw said.
In addition, family members often enable sex offenders by ignoring
court orders that prohibit the offender from being left alone with
children in the family, Sanchez said. Within Navajo families, Upshaw
added, the largest numbers of offenders she has counseled have been
grandfathers or fathers who were left alone to watch children for
the family.
Based on her experience working with sex offenders, Upshaw feels
many offenders are also in denial about their own criminal behavior.
Through their statements, she explained, they express the belief
they have done nothing wrong.
When sex offenders offer defensive arguments about the age of the
victim or the circumstances of the incident, Sanchez added, they
are just voicing that denial. "It's all abuse," he said. "And
it's all damaging."
Only rarely will sex offenders come forward for treatment on their
own, Sanchez added. Usually they have to be ordered into treatment
through the legal system, and usually they won't admit to assaulting
any other victims other than the ones they were caught abusing.
The legal system in New Mexico has particularly been inadequate in
dealing with sex offenders, Sanchez said. "Laws in New Mexico
are very weak," he said. "Sex offenders drift through New
Mexico because they know the laws are weak."
Sanchez hopes a large number of local people will take advantage
of the training to learn more about the identification and treatment
of sex offenders. There is really "no room for error"in
treating sex offenders, said Sanchez. "When there's a relapse,
there's another victim."
For registration information, contact RMCHCS's Behavioral Health
Services at 726-6900 (locally) or 1-800-722-3804 (toll free).
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Cub Scouts go all out in McGaffey
Andrea Egger
Staff Writer
GALLUP — Area Cub Scouts had a "boys week out" in
the beautiful forest of McGaffey Wednesday through Friday.
Of course, the trails are all closed due to drought conditions — and
McGaffey Lake looked like a tiny rain puddle Thursday afternoon — but
this didn't stop the boys from having fun in a variety of activities.
Camp started at 8:30 a.m. and ended at 3:30 p.m., said Cub Scouts
Executive Director Keith Mette.
On Thursday afternoon, the Fort Wingate Fire Department brought two
vehicles to the camp and let the kids climb all over them — and
then the kids found the siren button, much to the dismay of the adult
leaders.
At the end of their show, firefighters got out a hose and sprayed
the campers — most of whom ran into the water instead of away
from it.
" 'Cause it's hot," explained Obryant Ashley, 8, of Mentmore, whose
wet Cub Scouts T-shirt clung to his body while he joined friends in the shade.
Cub Scouts Camp Director Carlos Lasiloo said the McKinley County
Wildlife Foundation donated the camp area behind McGaffey "Lake" for
the three-day camp.
"We really appreciate that," he said.
The Cub Scouts' mission these days is "to give instruction to
kids and help them become good and outstanding citizens,"
Lasiloo said.
Fifty kids, first through fifth grade, attended the week. The kids
are from Gallup, Grants, Thoreau, Bluewater and on the
reservation in New Mexico.
They participated in biking, arts and crafts, played on a water slide,
learned archery, and were taught BB gun shooting by a
New Mexico State Police officer in Gallup.
A forest ranger spoke to campers Wednesday, talking about the animals
in the area and trees, as well as the drought, the
monsoon season in Gallup and the dangers of forest fires. She also
told students that many things they wouldn't consider are
made of wood — like shampoo, vanilla and many types of home
cleaners.
"It was pretty interesting," Lasiloo said.
Campers also learned safety issues and went through an obstacle course.
They were taught to sing songs, and the children
performed skits in front of their parents at the end of camp as part
of their participation in theater.
The Cub Scouts earn badges for each event, which goes toward their
merit badge, Lasiloo said. Another part of getting their
merit badge is to be able to identify different trees in the Gallup
area — which was another part of the forest ranger's talk, he
said.
This year's camp theme was "Oceans of the World," so arts
and crafts classes focused on creating rock sculptures portraying
this image, Lasiloo said.
"I don't know what it is," said Mette as he showed one students' effort
at the rock sculpture.
But that's OK — it was fun for the kids.
"It's organized chaos," Mette joked.
The kids were assigned to a "dens," eight to 12 kids, and
a "den parent," the group's leader.
Vivek Ramadoss, 9, of Gallup, said he liked "the water and the
BB guns."
Miguel Malvinato, 6, of Gallup, sat cross-legged all by himself on
the concrete while the other kids got wet. "I'm waiting for
the crowd to go down," he said in a tiny voice.
His group leader, Annette Ishmael of Gallup, was having a great first
time as a leader with the Scouts. Her son, Eric, 6, was at
the camp in another den.
Neal Ohle, 10, one of the older kids, swore he was "not bossy" with
the littler campers.
A girl in Cub Scouts? Jackie Frazier, 15, of Albuquerque, wore one
of the Cub Scouts uniform shirts and was just as wet as
the campers.
She came to the camp to help out because her two cousins were at
camp. "I helped the kids if they need it, like with coloring
or
spelling," Frazier said.
Program Director for the Scouts is John Alexander, with volunteers
galore — Gallup Indian Medical Center nurses Sandra
and John Fouser and Dr. Monty Woods, a surgeon at the same hospital.
They were there to treat any injuries.
State Police Officer Robert Baca taught BB gun shooting.
Med Star Ambulance donated a trauma and First Aid kit to the camp.
"But all we're getting is bee stings," Lasiloo said. "Fortunately,
people getting stung were not allergic to bee stings."
Clarissa Begay of the National Indian Youth Leadership Program was
one of the paid workers — who handled the bikemobile
and taught bike riding safety, bike rodeos and mounting and dismounting
a bike. Gurley Motors paid for Begay's time at the
camp.
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BLM builds picnic shelters on Highway
117
Tom Purdom
Staff Writer
GRANTS — Visitors are being blocked from going into the small
picnic and camping area along State Highway 117 and for good reason.
It's not because people have torn the area up.
It's because the Bureau of Land Management decided to add yet another
improvement, permanent picnic shelters.
"We're under construction right now and it will take until July when we're
done," said Ken Jones, the BLM supervisor in Grants.
The area is tucked away in a crook in the road about 20 miles south
of Grants and is fast becoming a show place for campers who know
it is there. Surrounded by rocky cliffs, the South Narrows Trailhead
begins there.
Originally it was part of the old State Highway 117, but when the
newer version of the highway was built the curve was taken out and
the road moved a couple hundred feet west. The old curve-in-the-road
became a somewhat hidden hot-spot for kids.
Eventually picnic tables were moved into the area by the BLM and
campers begin to discover the area's natural beauty.
The only problem was, in times of rain, portions of the area became
a quagmire of mud and misery.
It was not supposed to be a camping area, but people continued to
use it as such, as well as picnic area.
Two years ago the BLM decided that a permanent, semi-improved camping
spot was needed along 117 and the decision was made to build one,
but it would take time, a lot of time because the wheels of government
do move slow.
An area atop a small mesa about 10 miles north of the picnic and
pseudo camping spot was designated, however, time and money were
a huge factor.
To accommodate the public who knew about the old spot and continued
to use it, BLM officials decided to turn it into a temporary campground
until the new one is ready to use. Last October improvements were
made. One end of the road leading up to State Highway 117 was closed
down and six camping spaces were made in such a way that the rain-bogs
were
eliminated.
A few weeks ago BLM finished installing two toilets at each end of
the campground.
Now the permanent, metal picnic shelters are being built.
Jones said the shelters are anchored to the ground via four-foot
cement pillars. After the shelters are built cement pads will be
put in under the shelters and new picnic tables added, along with
barbecue grills and anchored trash cans.
There are six camp sites.
The area is beautiful. During the evening hours chances are good
that visitors will be able to view such wildlife as elk, mule
deer and possibly even black bear. Coyotes, prairie dogs and antelope
also inhabit the area.
"We've just been doing a little at a time," Jones said. "While
the construction is going on people cannot use the area, but there
is still the trailhead open and people can always camp in the backcountry.
A word of caution, however, with fire dangers in the
very high to extreme category, National Forests are closed, but camping
is still permitted on BLM lands. However, open fires
and smoking is prohibited, so while camping, make sure no open fires
are used. Coleman-type stoves and lanterns are
approved for camping in the wilderness areas.
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Area Sports
Santiago Ramos
Staff Sports Writer
CHURCH ROCK — As the saying goes, "Save the best for last".
Having to compete on the final night of the 54th Annual Gallup Lions
Club Rodeo proved to be of no hindrance for a number of rodeo contestants
that were able to rise to the occasion.
Jamestown cowgirl Robbie Whitehair and Arizona cowgirl Vida Benally
each blazed to identical times of 2.66 seconds Saturday night to
tie for top money in the breakaway roping competition in front of
nearly 8,000 fans at Red Rock State Park.
Despite being one of the last teams to compete, the team roping combination
of John English and Tim Gonzales proved to be
the fastest as the pair nailed a quick 4.93 second clocking for first
place money in the team roping.
Meanwhile Andy Cordova of Winslow, Ariz. pushed his horse to a 73
score and former Haystack cowboy Todd Rangel
scored a 72 Saturday night to finish 1-2 in the saddle bronc.
Whitehair and Benally both posted quick times of 2.66 seconds Saturday
to grab a share of top money in the breakaway roping. Each cowgirl
received $1,025. Tohatchi's Jennifer Moore placed third with a 2.88
for $753. Payson, Arizona cowgirl Teri James placed fourth with a
2.97 for $544. Belen's Brook Ezell took fifth with a 3.03 ($419),
Carlsbad's Jana Reid sixth with a 3.12 ($209), Twin Lakes' Lavina
Willie seventh with a 3.13 ($126) and Albuquerque's Saranda McGuire
eighth with a 3.24 ($83).
In the bull riding Final Four Rideoff, there were no qualified rides.
Last year's winner Bo Vocu, along with Ace Yoe, Clint Arthur, Mitt
Hollowhorn and Fletcher Tigner all failed to post qualified rides.
First place Romeo Maryboy and second place Julius Y. Begay both were
no shows for the rideoff.
Winslow's Andy Cordova lasted eight seconds for a 60 score on Wild
Woman to take home first place money of $1,000 in the saddle bronc
rideoff after winning the long go with a 72 score. Cordova just beat
out former area cowboy Rangel who scored a 57 on Brush. Patrick Smith
and Travis Autrey both failed to score.
Cordova admitted that he banged up his leg during his first ride
Saturday for the long go that hurt his score during the $1,000 rideoff.
"I banged my leg up on Lonestar," said the 34-year-old Cordova. "It's
sore and it affected my ride (in the rideoff)."
Cordova pointed out that it was his third ride of the day, having
scored a winning ride of 79 at a Grand Canyon Rodeo Association rodeo
at the Hondo Casino earlier in the day. He added that he was returning
to Hondo for his second round ride on Sunday.
"You're so pumped up, you might as well do it (a second ride)," Cordova
said about having to go on multi-mounts on the same day.
Cordova, who is a track supervisor for Burlington Northern Santa
Fe, said this was his best showing at the Gallup Lions Club Rodeo
since he began competing in it in 1985.
Grants' Gary Gordon won the $1,000 in the bareback rideoff with a
79 score on All Shook Up. Former world champion Bennie Begay finished
second with a 78 on Cheatin' Heart. Les Thomas scored a 72 on Emergency
and Steve Cordova had a 71 on Calamity Jane.
The team of English and Gonzales topped the lucrative team roping
competition, posting the lone sub-five-second run with a quick 4.93
second clocking. The pair shared first place money of $4,622.40 The
team of Nate Blackrock and Troy Kitchener finished second with a
5.15 for $3,766.40 just ahead of the team of Bobby Baize and Nano
Garza with a 5.16 for $3,081.60. Despite being the final team to
compete, the team of Darrel Morris and Angelo Benally was able to
post a 5.42 for fourth place money of $2,225.60. The team of Mark
Simon and Shad Chadwick took fifth with a 5.46 for $1,712. The team
of Rudy and Doyle Yazzie placed sixth with a 5.60 ($856). The team
of Shane Hatch and Chadwick and the team of Jerry McPhaul and
Keith James tied for seventh with 5.69s ($428 per team).
The top two scores in the saddle bronc were turned in on the final
night.
Andy Cordova of Winslow, Ariz. rode Lonestar to a 73 score and first
place for $912. Rangel, now living in Odessa, Texas, rode to a 72
and second place for a payoff of $755. Patrick Smith of White Cone,
Ariz. and Travis Autrey of Mountainair tied for third with 68s ($519
each). Brandon Brown of Tatum took fifth with a 66 ($283) with Romeo
Maryboy of Baby Rocks,
Ariz. rounding out the top six with a 65 ($157).
Former world champion Maryboy also claimed the bull riding with a
84 score that he turned in on opening night Maryboy
pocketed first place money of $1,990. Former two-time world champion
Julius Y. Begay of Shiprock and Clint Arthur of Lupton, Ariz. tied
for second place with 78 scores that was worth $1,474 each. Ace Yoe
of Wheatfields, Ariz. and Mitt
Hollowhorn of Las Cruces each posted scores of 77 and 76 Saturday
to place fourth and fifth respectively. Yoe won $958 and Hollowhorn
received $737. Bo Vocu of Phoenix and Fletcher Tigner of Magdalena
tied for sixth with 75s. Each received $295. Harry Smith of Burnt
Corn, Ariz. rounded out the top eight with a 73 ($147).
Former world champion Ben Bates of Mexican Springs was the top bulldogger
with his 4.30 that paid first place money of $1,288. Former world
champion Ed Holyan of Tohatchi dropped his steer in 5.07 Saturday
to place second overall for $1,049. Former world champion Karl Dennison,
also of Tohatchi, took third Saturday with a 5.19 ($858). Craig Hicks
of Avondale, Ariz. finished fourth with a 5.42 ($620) with first
night leader Willis Begay III of Chinle, Ariz. slipping to fifth
with a 5.58 ($477). Albuquerque's Pepe Arbello placed sixth with
a 5.97 ($239) with Tucson, Arizona's Alan Story finishing seventh
with
a 6.10 ($144). Russell Armenta of Farmington rounded out the top
eight with a 6.12 ($95).
Brimhall roper Donovan Yazzie was able to last four nights of competition.
Yazzie's 8.59 second clocking on opening night proved to be the fastest.
Yazzie pocketed first place money of $1,305. Leroy Etsitty of Kayenta,
Ariz. finished behind Yazzie with an 8.84 ($1,064). Reginald Tso
of Smoke Signal and Royce Lynch of Las Cruces both roped Saturday
and were able to
place third and fourth respectively with times of 9.10 and 9.19.
Tso received $870 and Lynch received $629. Brian LaPresto
of Glendale, Ariz. finished fifth with a 9.40 ($483). Karl Dennison
and Holyan also roped on the final night for times of 9.59
and 9.69 respectively for sixth and seventh place. Dennison received
$242 with Holyan with $145. Anders Perry of
Crownpoint slipped into eighth place with a 9.96 ($97).
Grants' Gary Gordon also outlasted his competition to win the bareback
riding. Gordon's first night score of 76 claimed first
place money of $648. Les Thomas of Crow Agency, Montana and former
world champion Bennie Begay of Rock Point, Ariz.
tied for second with 73s ($480.50 each). Steve Cordova of Winslow
finished third with a 70 ($313). Mike Murphy of Fort
Wingate was fifth with a 68 ($201) with Stetson Herrera of Marval,
Colo. sixth with a 66 ($112).
Winston's Trudy Freeman was the big winner in the barrel racing,
winning the fourth go round and the average.
Freeman claimed the fourth go round with a 16.333, the fastest in
the four go rounds. Freeman received $310. Sharon Gunter placed second
with a 16.552 ($232) with Brandi McKinley of Datil third with a 16.788
($155). Tawana McPhaul of Pietown
placed fourth with a 16.833 ($77).
Freeman also easily won the barrel racing average with a 67.07 total
on four runs for a first place payoff of $733. Cheyenne Cadman took
second place with a 67.609 for $611. McKinley was third with a 67.686
($458) while Marie Autrey was fourth
with a 67.738 ($336). Gunter placed fifth with a 68.229 ($275) with
Julianna Coho sixth with a 69.035 ($214). Sara Vance
was next with a 70.044 for seventh ($153). Rhonda Padilla was eighth
with a 70.323 ($122) with Debbie Lee ninth with a
72.649 ($91). McPhaul rounded out the top 10 with a 73.344 ($61).
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Tribe to host small business forum
Larry Di Giovanni
Staff Writer
WINDOW ROCK — Fully aware that there are serious impediments
to small business development on the Navajo reservation, the Navajo
Nation Division of Economic Development will host a Small Business
Forum Thursday at the Window Rock Museum and Visitor Center to
uncover more answers and possible solutions.
Most businesses on the Navajo Nation are small businesses, said
Division of Economic Development Director Ed Richards, who will
provide Thursday's welcoming address at 8:15 a.m. The forum's main
panel presentation from 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. will focus on "How
the Navajo Nation can improve services to small Navajo businesses..."
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Firefighters say 'goodbye' to Cherry fire
Tom Purdom
Staff Writer
EL MALPAIS NATIONAL MONUMENT — After burning for 11 days Cherry
Fire officials called it contained Friday and
on Sunday the last of 560 fire personnel packed up, said good-bye
a left for home.
"The communities and relationships we formed here are incredible," said
Dale Gardner, fire incident commander from Oregon. "When we come into an
area we inherit what we find and here, it's been good..."
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Council pay raise trial set for July
Jim Maniaci
Diné Bureau
CHINLE — The long-delayed lawsuit against the 19th Navajo
Nation Council's $10,000 pay raise will go to trial in district
court here on July 19, a visiting judge confirmed Friday.
Chief Justice Robert Yazzie assigned the case in the Chinle court
to Judge Irene Toledo of the Crownpoint District after Wesley
Atakai resigned under fire last fall...
Deaths
Lorenzo O. Madrid Jr.
NAVAJO ESTATES — Services for Lorenzo Madrid Jr., 62, will
be held at 10 a.m., Tuesday, June 18 at St. Francis of Assisi
Catholic Church. Father Diego Mazon will officiate. Burial will
follow at Sunset Memorial Park.
A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m., tonight at Rollie Mortuary.
Madrid Jr. died June 12 in Navajo Estates. He was born April 20,
1940 in Santo Thomas.
Survivors include his wife, Rosie Madrid of Yah Ta Hey; sons, Jeremi
Madrid and Lorenzo Madrid III both of Gallup;
daughter, Maria Cleo Griego of Gallup; brothers, Andy Madrid of
Sacramento and James Madrid of Gallup; sisters, Mellie
Romero of Gallup and Nellie Salazar of Albuquerque; eight grandchildren
and nine great-grandchildren.
Madrid Jr. was preceded in death by his parents, Maria and Lornezo
Madrid Sr.; sister, Mary Lou Gomes and brother, Ernest
Madrid.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Roger Charles Whitehair
TOHATCHI — Services for Roger Whitehair, 51, will be held
at 10 a.m., Tuesday, June 18 at Rollie Mortuary Palm Chapel. Burial
will follow at Hillcrest Cemetery.
A rosary will be recited at 5 p.m., tonight at Rollie Mortuary-Palm
Chapel.
Whitehair died June 13 in Tohatchi. He was born Aug. 5, 1950 in
Rehoboth into the Bitterwater People Clan for the Tree that
Mushrooms Out of People Clan.
Survivors include his son, Roberto Shazam Yazzie of Florence, Colo.;
daughter, Melissa Thomas of Hillsboro, Ore.; parents,
Isabel and Henry Whitehair both of Tohatchi; brothers, Vincent
Moreno of Auroro, Colo. and Henry L. Whitehair of Window
Rock; sisters, Kathy Herrera of Gamerco; Lisa Higgins of Virginia
Beach, Va., Annabel Whitehair of Gallup, Marlon Salinas
and Henrietta Ceja of Chicago, Ill. and three grandchildren.
Whitehair was preceded in death by his brothers, Alfredie Whitehair
and Anthony James Whitehair.
Pallbearers will be family members.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
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