Deaths

• Emily Padilla
• Freddie Chee
• Jerrell Arthur Knowles
• Loretta Arviso Martin

Emily Padilla

GALLUP — Services for Emily M. Padilla, 72, will be at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 6 at Sacred Heart Cathedral. Fr. Mike Vigil will officiate.

Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Park. A rosary will be recited one-half hour before services at Sacred Heart Cathedral. Padilla died Feb. 12 in Gallup. She was born on October 28, 1933 in Grants. She attended school in Grants. She moved to Gallup in 1963 and was a co-owner of Genaro's Restaurant. She and her late husband owned and operated it for 30 years. Her hobbies include going to casinos.

Survivors include her daughter, Barbara Garcia of Gallup; sons, Eddie Padilla and Paul Padilla of Gallup; brother, Julian Montano of Chandler, Ariz.; sisters, Lala Otero and Beatrice West of Albuquerque.

Padilla was preceded in death by her husband, Edward Padilla, Sr.; parents, Luberto and Leonorita Montano; daughters, Kathy and Patricia Padilla; brothers, Roland and Sepriano Montano.

Pallbearers will be Rick Dannenbaum, Julian Montano, Joseph Murietta, Earl Murphy III, Amado Otero, Baily Padilla, Genaro Villanueva.

Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Freddie Chee

ST. MICHALES — Funeral services for Freddie Chee, 49 will be at 10 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 16 at the Mary Mother of Mankind. Father Gilbert Schneider, OFM will officiate. Burial will be in at the St. Michael's Community Cemetery.

Chee died Feb. 11 in St. Michaels. He was born March 23, 1959 in Fort Defiance for the Black Streak of the Forest People into the Honey Combed Rock People Clan. He was a self-employed arts and crafts makerand a Kachina carver.

Survivors include his brothers Wilfred and Michael Chee; sisters, Cassandra and Carol Chee.

Chee was preceded in death by his parents Luther and Mary Louise Chee; sister, Mary Jane Chee.

Pallbearers will be Roger Peterson, Wilfred Chee, James Dawes, Oscar Alexius, Ricky Nelson and Nolando Neswood.

The family will receive relatives and friends at the St. Michael's Chapter House.

Tse Bonito is in charge of arrangements.

Jerrell Arthur Knowles

KAYENTA, Ariz. — Memorial service for Jerrell Arthur Knowles, 29 was held on Thursday, Feb. 9 at the First Baptist Church in Kayenta. A wake was held all night beginning Feb. 12 and funeral services were held on Monday, Feb. 13 at 10 a.m. Burial was at the Redstone Cemetery in Oaklahoma.

Knowles died on Feb. 5 in Kayenta. He was a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma of Irish. He graduated from Red Mesa High School and earned his AA degree from High Tech Institute in Phoenix. Knowles participated in the Americore program in Kayenta. He also played in the band the Horny Toads.

Survivors include his brothers, Bob Knowles, Timothy Knowles, Gregory Knowles, Charley Eisenberer and Dean Haungoah; sisters, Hattie Gray, Patty Jo Eisenberger, Denise Garza, Diane Cody, Rosine Tree, Yanavia Haungooah and Maureen Short.

Donations can be made to the Jerrell Arthur Knowles Memorial Fund at his mother's residence in Kayenta, PO Box 3867, Kayenta, Ariz.

Loretta Arviso Martin

FORT DEFIANCE — Funeral services for Loretta Ariviso Martin, 73 are pending. Martin died on Feb. 13 in Gallup and was born on May 11, 1932 in Fort Defiance for the Mud People Clan into the Zuni People Clan.

Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.