Deaths

• Tommy Hardy
• Joseph Swoboda
• Mary Moore
• Laura Dale
• Leonard Muskett
• Henry Etcitty III

Tommy Hardy

FORT DEFIANCE — Services for Tommy Hardy will be Saturday, April 8 at 10 a.m. at the Good Sheperd Mission in Fort Defiance. Pastor Milton Shirleson will officiate. Burial will be on family land in Wildcat, N.M.

Hardy died April 3. He was born Nov. 6, 1950 in Fort Defiance into the Water's Edge Clan and born for the Towering House Clan.

Hardy attended and lettered in sports at Window Rock High School, upon graduation he enlisted in the U.S. Marines. and won medal awards. He was a member of the Damon Boxing team, and was an avid fisherman, enjoyed camping, hiking, he was a rancher and a member of the Twin Warriors Society and N.R.A. of America. He retired from service as a wildland firefighter with the Navajo Nation Forestry Dept. and the BIA. He was employed at the USPHS Hospital in Fort Defiance.

He is survived by his wife Sharon Hardy; sons, Brandyn Hardy and Colin Hardy; brothers, Andrew Hardy, Timothy Hardy and Wayne Hardy; sisters, Arlene Yazzie, LaCinda Hardy, and Charlene Curley and one grandchild.

Hardy was preceded in death by his father Navajo Code Talker-Tom C. Hardy; mother Helen Clark Hardy; brother's Ronald Harvey and Freddie Hardy.

Pallbearers will be Andrew Hardy, Robert Archuleta, Frankie Archuleta, Tommy Archuleta, Len Foster, and Darryl Bahe.

The family will receive relatives and friends at Rock Springs Chapter after services.

Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Joseph Swoboda

GRANTS — Services for Joseph W. "Butch" Swoboda, 82, will be held on Saturday, April 8 at 4 p.m. at Compassion Mortuary Chapel with full New Mexico State Police Honors.

Swoboda died on March 26 in Twin Rivers, Wisc. He was born December 18, 1923 in Two Rivers, Wisc.

He was a veteran with the U.S Navy during WW II and the Korean Conflict. He retired from the N.M State Police Force as a Lieutenant in 1979. He then moved to Wyoming where he worked testing concrete strength.

He is survived by his daughters, Diantha Swoboda of Albuquerque, and Emily Page of Edgewood; son Loren Swoboda of Norfolk, Va., and Joseph W. Swoboda II of Grants.; four grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Rudolph and Emma Nemitz Swoboda; brother Albert Swoboda.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the American Lung Association.

Compassion Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Go to www.compassionmortuary.com to send condolences.

Mary Moore

ROCKYPOINT — Services are pending for Mary Jane Moore- "Sis Moore."

Moore died on April 6 in Gallup. She was born Oct. 15, 1911.

A family meeting will be held on Saturday April 8 at 4 p.m. at Rocky Point Church.

Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Laura Dale

Saturday, April 8 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Naschitti. Father Joe Radinbo will officiate. Burial will be at Naschitti Community Cemetery.

A rosary will be held tonight at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Naschitti at 7 p.m.

Dale died on April 4. He was born May 12, 1919 in Naschitti into the Tangle People Clan and born for the Mud People Clan.

Survivors include her sons, Albert Dale, Bobby Dale, Ronald Dale and Cedric Dale, all of Naschitti, James Dale of Farmington, and Wallace Dale of Albuquerque; daughters, Karen Dale of Farmington, Martha Daw of Tuba City, Marie Maloney of Shonto, Lula Walters of Fort Defiance; brothers, Tony Begay of Tohatchi and Stanley Neal Tsosie of Naschitti; 32 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Dale was preceded in death by husband Hoskie Dale; daughter Catherine Burunda; son Ernest Dale Sr.; parents, Tom Tsosie and Nesbah Francisco; sisters, Eva Arviso and Laura Woody; brothers, Howard Tsosie and William Peter Tsosie.

Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Leonard Muskett

CROWNPOINT — Services are pending for Leonard Muskett, 38, of Crownpoint.

Muskett died on April 4. He was born May 25, 1967.

Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Henry Etcitty III

CROWNPOINT — Services are pending for Henry "Stretch" Etcitty III, 39, of Crow
npoint.

Etcitty died on April 3 in Missoula, Mt. He was born on May 22, 1966 in Crownpoint into the Water Flows Together Clan and for the Zuni Red Running Into the Water Clan.

A family meeting will be held on Friday, April 7 at 5 p.m. at the Crownpoint Chapter House.

Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.