Deaths

• Bessie Nez
• Jovan Naabahe Bonner
• Phillip Cummins
• Avis Crow

Bessie Nez

BLUE CANYON, Ariz. — Funeral services for Bessie M. Nez, 42, will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 26 at the Assembly of God in Fort Defiance. Pastor Delana and James Bennett will officiate. Burial will be held on the family plot in Blue Canyon.

Nez died Jan. 21 in Blue Canyon. She was born Dec. 29, 1963 in Fort Defiance for the Bitter Water PeopleClan into the Red Bottom People Clan.

She worked for the Window Rock and Gallup Police Department as a Detention Officer, also with the BIA Forestry Office. She liked to listen to gospel music and was an animal lover.

Survivors include her parents Julius and Margaret Nez, both of Blue Canyon; brothers, Justin Nez, Jackson Nez, Micheal Nez, Andrew Nez, and Buddy Nez all of Fort Defiance; sisters, Judy Nez of Winslow, April Hale of Fort Defiance and Ella Nez of Navajo.

Pallbearers will be family members.

Jovan Naabahe Bonner

McPHERSON, Kan. — Funeral services for Jovan Naabahe Bonner, 6 months, will be at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, January 27 at the Morning Star Baptist Church in McPherson, Kan. Rev. James Hollis and Rev. Leonard Peoples will officiate. Burial will be at the McPherson Cemetary.

Bonner died on Jan. 22 in McPherson, Kansas. He was born on July 21, 2005 in McPherson.

Survivors inlcude his parents Dwight Jovan Bonner and Kyronna J. Roanhorse; sister, Kiona Sumral; grandparents, Jim and Kay Roanhorse of Window Rock, Randy Bonner of Dallas, Bruce Morgan of Forest City, Ariz.; great grandparents, Irene Columbus of Oklahoma City, Okla. Annie C. Yazzie of Pine Springs, Ariz., Sara Brown, Catherine Morgan and Eugene Bonner all of Forest City, Ariz.

Phillip Cummins

ST. FRANCIS, S.D. — Funeral and traditional Lakota Services for Chief Phillip Aaron Cummins Crazy Bull, 56, was held on Tuesday, Jan. 24th and today, Jan. 25th at Digmann Hall in St. Francis. Crow Dog will officiate. Traditional services and burial will be at Clearwater Cemetary, Crow Dog Paradise near Rosebud, S.D.

Crazy Bull died on Jan. 18 in Corrales, N.M. He was born July 2, 1949 in Poplar, Mont.

He was Sicangu Lakota. Crazy Bull graduated from Fort Lewis College with a B.A. degree in Psychology, then earned his Masters Degree in Psychology from UNM. He loved the outdoors, basketball, fishing and camping. He sponsored many spiritual activities.

Survivors include his daughters, Tatum Sioux Cummins of Gallup and Rani Michelle Eggert of Lawrence, Kans; sons, Kahska Crazy Bull of Tokyo, Japan; sisters, Bernadette Dimas of Rio Rancho, N.M., LaVerde Eagle Bear of Seattle, Wash., and Deloris Crazy Bull of Calif.; Phillip Cummins, Jr.; and six grandchildren.

Crazy Bull was preceded in death by his father Lester Edwards, Sr. and mother Mercelline Eagle Bear; sister Darlene Edwards; first wife, Rena Cummins and second wife Shizuka Kono/Crazy Bull and brother Francis Two Bulls.

Pallbearers will be Marcus Begay, Sonny One Star, Thaddeus Smith, Charles Little elk, Hadrian Comans, Rick Tarin, Benjamin Quinonez, Raul Majares, Tsuyoshi Nakajima and Albine Garcia, Jr.

Avis Crow

GALLUP — Avis Crow, 77, died Jan 20. Avis was an elementary librarian for several years in the Gallup-McKinley school system. She was also a geneologist.

She and her husband Carroll Crow resided in Gallup for 33 years.