Deaths

• Wayne Plummer
  
• Helen Louise Benally
  
• Raphael D. Yazzie

Wayne Plummer

FORT DEFIANCE — Funeral services for Wayne Timothy Plummer, 38, will be at 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 7 at the Fort Defiance Assembly of God Church. Leonard Kansewah III will officiate. Burial will follow at the Fort Defiance Community Cemetery.

Plummer was born Nov. 21, 1966 in Fort Defiance into the Sleeping Rock People Clan for the Towering House People Clan.

Plummer graduated from Window Rock High School in 1987. He worked for the BIA for 13 years with the forestry branch and was employed with P&M Mine. Plummer enjoyed arts and crafts, basketball and outdoor recreation.

Survivors include his wife, Viola R. Plummer; son, Idonis H. Plummer; daughter, Vibekah Plummer; mother, Maggie T. Begay and four grandchildren, all of Fort Defiance.

Plummer was preceded in death by his grandparents, Sam Tracy and Yilhazbah Tracy; brother, Vernon Capitan and father, Hugh Plummer.

Pallbearers will be Curtis Begay, Jr., Manuel Lucero, Leroy Curtis, Wilfred Wilson, Jonathan Price and Roger Hubbard.

The family will receive relatives and friends at the Assembly of God Life Center.

Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Helen Louise Benally

KAYENTA — Funeral mass for Helen Louise Benally, 64, will be at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 6 at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church. Burial was in the Chinle Community Cemetery.

Benally died April 1 in Kayenta. She was born Feb. 20, 1941 in Keams Canyon into the Towering House People Clan for the Blackstreak Wood People Clan.

Benally attended Chemawe Indian School and was a homemaker.

Survivors include her sons, Kirk Benally, Nathaniel Benally, both of Gallup, Kevin Benally of Church Rock; daughters, Maureen Zamora of Moriarty, Doreen Begay, Noreen Begay, both of Kayenta; brothers, Earl Paddock, Roxie Nelson, Tex Nelson, both of Low Mountain, John Paddock of Auburn, Wash.; sisters, Mary Charley, Mary Begay, both of Low Mountian, Angie Yazzie of Gallup and seven grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Kirk Benally, Kevin Benally, Nathaniel Benally, Daniel Zamora, Paul Begay and Daniel Begay.

The family will receive relatives and friends at Mary Begay's residence 7 1/2 miles east of the Low Mountian Chapter house.

Raphael D. Yazzie

RED VALLEY — Funeral services for code talker Raphael D. Yazzie, 82, will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 8 at the Christ of Kings Catholic Church, Shiprock. Burial will be in the Shiprock Veterans Cemetry.

Yazzie died April 3. He was born May 30, 1922 in Hogback, N.M.