Death

Vernon E. Tsosie

SAWMILL — Funeral services for Vernon Edward Tsosie, 39, will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 12 at Our Lady of Blessed Sacrament, Fort Defiance. Father Gilbert Schneider, O.F.M. will officiate. Burial will follow in the Fort Defiance Community Cemetery.

Tsosie died March 8 in Phoenix. He was born April 19, 1965 in Fort Defiance into the Red Running into Water People Clan for the Bitter Water People Clan.

Tsosie attended Fort Defiance public schools and graduated from Window Rock High School in 1985. He worked for the Navajo Forest Product Industries. He enjoyed basketball, sightseeing and traveling.

Survivors include his daughters, Raquel Cleo Tsosie, Rochell Tsosie, Vernae Tsosie all of Mesa, Ariz.; father, Edward Sam Tsosie of Navajo; mother, Roslyn Tsosie of Sawmill; brother Ferland E. Tsosie of Glendale, Ariz.;grandmother, Mary D. Tsosie.

Pallbearers will be Vernell Tsosie, Patrick Tsosie, Virgil Tsosie, Michael Teller, Duane Tsosie and Casey Teller.