Deaths

• Adele Francis
• Alice Redhouse
• Lawrence Begay
• Rosemary Jones

Adele Francis

CHINLE — Services for Adele Begay Francis, 60, will be at 10 a.m., Monday, Feb 20 at Chinle Christian Center. Ardy Aragon will officiate. Burial will be at the Chinle Community Cemetery.

Francis died on Feb. 16 in Chinle. He was born May 31, 1945 in Chinle in the Water Flows Together People Clan for the Towering House People Clan.

Francis was a homemaker and a animal lover. She enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren and taking care of her goats and sheep.

Survivors include her husband Thomas Francis, Sr.; sons, Albert Francis Jr. and Tommy Francis, both of Chinle; daughter JoAnn Francis of Chinle; mother, Louise Begay; brothers, Robert Allen Begay, Ronald Begay and Charles Begay, all from Chinle; sisters, Elouise Begay, Laura Charly, Arlene Begay, 14 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Francis was preceded in death by her son Thomason Francis and one brother, Jimmy Begay.

The family will receive relatives and friends at Chinle Redwood Housing #60.

Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Alice Redhouse

NAVAJO, N.M. — Services for Alice Redhouse, 74, will be at 10 a.m., Monday, Feb 20 at St. Michaels Catholic Mission in St. Michaels. Father Gilbert will officiate. Burial will follow at Fort Defiance Community Cemetery.
Visitation will be held one hour before services at the church.

Redhouse died Feb. 15 in Gallup. She was born Aug. 5, 1931 in Many Farms into the Red Streak Running into the Water People Clan for the Salt People Clan.

Redhouse was employed at Griswalds, 7-11 Stores, various restaurants and cafes in Fort Defiance. Her hobbies were composing and singing Navajo traditional songs with the "Red Lake Wingers." She enjoyed Bingos and being with family.

Survivors include her husband, Bobby Redhouse; sons, Terry Redhouse Sr., Lorenzo Bahe and Harry Nez; daughter, Loberta Redhouse; brother Tom Byjoe; sisters, Della Yazzie, Lillian Hoffman, Lupe Tso, AnnieTayha, Betty Tsosie and Margarita Tsosie, 13 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.

Redhouse was preceded in death by her sons Alana Bahe, Oscar Redhouse; parents Hosten and Hasbah Byjoe; brothers Howard Thomas, Jack Byjoe and two grandchildren.

Jarick Mastach, Jeron Mastach, Lorenzo Bahe, Harry Nez, Wilfred Bahe, Terrill Redhouse.

The family will receive relatives and friends at St. Michaels Parish Hall after the services.

Lawrence Begay

GANADO — Services for Lawrence Begay, 78, will be at noon on Monday, Feb 20 at St. Michaels Catholic Church. Father Flann O'Neil will officiate. Burial will follow on family land.

Begay died Feb. 16 in Ganado. He was born Feb. 12, 1928 in Ganado.

Survivors include his son, Lawrence Begay Jr. of Cornfield; daughter Judy White of Ganado; sisters, Kate Dale of Riverside, Calif., Josephine Perez of Long Beach, Calif., Mary James, Irene Keyonnie and Arlene Woody, all of Ganado, four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Begay was preceded in death by his parents Clyde Tso Begay and Marilyn Begay; brothers, David Begay, Francis Begay and Harry Begay; sisters, Marie Tsosie and Mildred Willie.

Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Rosemary Jones

GANADO — Services for Rosemary Marie Jones, 52, will be at 11 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 20 at Ganado Presbyterian Church. Henry Haskie will officiate. Burial will follow on the Chinle family plot. Visitation will be one hour before sesrvices for immediate family only at the church.

Jones died Feb. 16 in gallup. She was born Aug. 10, 1953 in Monrovia, Calif into the Water's Edge People Clan for the Bitter Water People Clan.

Survivors include J.R. Yazzie; sons, Louis A. Jones Jr. of Phoenix; daughters, Carlene G. Haskie, J. Michelle Haskie, both of Phoenix, and Shannon L. Haskie of Tucson; parents Louis and Mildred Jones, both of Chinle; brothers, Donald T. Chee Sr., of Forest Lake, Ariz. sisters, Annie R. Silversmith of Oak Springs, Ariz., and Betty L. Chee of Durango, Colo.; and five grandchildren.

Jones was preceded in death by her grandparents, Howard Jones, Naglii Hasbah Jones, Deschinee Nez Tracy.

Pallbearers will be Shannon L. Haske, Kenneth Killup, Malachy J. Riley, Donald T. chee, Jr., Dwayne L. Gorman and Benson Johnson.

The family will receive relatives and friends at Louis and Mildred Jones residence in Chinle after services.

Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.