Deaths

• Tommy Begay Sr.
• Mae Smith

Tommy Begay Sr.

FORT WINGATE — Funeral services for Tommy Begay, Sr., 57, will be 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 4 at Cope Memorial Chapel. Sammy Walker will officiate. Interment will follow in Jones Ranch.

Begay, Sr. died Dec. 30 in Gallup. He was born Feb. 13, 1948 in Blackrock into the Sleep Rock People Clan for the Mexican People Clan.

Begay, Sr. attended Jones Ranch Day School, Alamagordo Schools, and graduated from West Mesa High School in 1965. He was employed with Bear Springs Enterprise for 30 years. He also worked for the Idaho Potato Plant and Union Pacific Railroad. Begay, Sr. enjoyed sandcasting, silversmithing, traveling, and being with family and friends.

Survivors include his wife, Louise Begay of Fort Wingate; son, Tommy Begay Jr. of Williams Acres; daughters, Tammie Begay, Thelma Begay, Thelda Begay all of Fort Wingate, Geneva Begay of Albuquerque, Martha Begay of Yatahey, Sharon Begay of Gamerco, Lucinda Begay of Window Rock; brothers, Henry Begay of Albuquerque, Dan Begay, Paul Wilson Begay both of Jones Ranch, Paul Chee Begay of Farmington, Jimmy Begay of Pinehill; sisters, Leilitta Begay of Gallup, Linda Donswerth of Tucumcari; and 21 grandchildren.

Begay, Sr. was preceded in death by his father, Paul Begay; mother, Mary C. Begay; and son, Timothy Roy Begay.

Pallbearers will be Henry Begay, Paul Chee Begay, Paul Wilson Begay, Dan Begay, Jimmy Begay and Frankie L. Gregorio, Jr.

The family will receive relatives and friends at the Chichiltah Chapter.

Cope Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Mae Smith

WINNEMUCCA, Nev. — Mae Virginia Smith, 85, died Dec. 31 in Winnemucca, Nev. She was born Aug. 26, 1920 in Thorntown, Ind.

Smith was a longtime resident of Bluewater Acres and worked as head cook at Thoreau High School from 1974 to 1983.

Survivors inlcude her daughters, Jean Freeland of Winnemucca, Donna Baca of Las Vegas, Nev.; son, Charles Smith of Aurora, Colo.; one brother and four sisters; 12 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren.

Smith was preceded in death by her parents, William and Grace Martin; husband, Walter Smith; daughter, Betty Tucher; son, Harold Smith; four brothers and six sisters.

Correction
Memorial services for Brett E. Torgler will be held today, Jan. 3 at 1 p.m. at the Joshua Generation Church. Saturday's paper listed the wrong time.