Deaths

• Roy Becenti Notah
• Lawrence R. Riley
• Beverlianna Hale

Roy Becenti Notah

CHINLE — Funeral services for Roy Becenti Notah, 84 will be at 10 a.m., Tuesday, February 28 at Our Lady of Fatima Church in Chinle. Father Blane Grein, OFM will officiate. Burial will be at Chinle Community Cemetery.

Notah died on Feb. 28 in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was born on April 10, 1921 in Coyote Canyon into the Folded Arm People Clan for the Bitterwater People Clan. Notah graduated from Fort Wingate High School and enlisted into the United States Marine Corps as a Navajo Code Talker. He worked for the Gallup Indian Medical Center, Union Pacific Railroad, Chinle Bureau of Indian Agency, Navajo Tribe Water Development. He did receive a Congressional Silver Medal of Honor. He enjoyed his time with friends and relatives.

Survivors include his wife, Louise Notah; son, Ernest Lee; daughters, Judy Bahe, Barbara Begay, Luella Peterson, Genevieve Notah, and Maxine Notah; brothers, Clayton Becenti, Carl Becenti, Ray Becenti, and Roy Notah; sister, Bessie Becenti; 15 grandchildren; 27 great grandchildren.

Notah was preceded in death by his parents, Bisdabah Becenti and Chischilly Becenti; sister, Emma Casuse.

Pallbearers will be the Navajo Nation Veterans.

Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Lawrence R. Riley

ACOMITA — Funeral services are pending for Lawrence R. Riley, 89 of Acomita, New Mexico.

Riley died on Feb. 25 in Acomita. He was born on Dec. 4, 1916 in Old Laguna, New Mexico.

Compassion Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Beverlianna Hale

SHEEP SPRINGS — Funeral services are pending for Beverlianna Hale, 38 of Sheep Springs, N.M.

Hale died on Feb. 24 in Gallup. She was born on May 10, 1967 in Denver, Colo., into the Mountain Cove People Clan for the One Who Walks Around Clan.

Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.