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Nora Mae Paige

MARIANO LAKE — Funeral services for Nora Mae Snyder Paige, 72, will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, at St. Paul Catholic Church in Crownpoint. Burial will be in Crownpoint Cemetery.

Paige died Oct. 19 in Gallup. She was born March 27, 1933, in Mariano Lake into the Meadow People Clan for the Standing Tree People Clan.

Paige was a vocational school student for three years. She was a rug weaver, homemaker, caregiver and livestock worker.

Survivors include her sons, Ernest and Jerry Paige; daughters, Daisy Paige, Julia McCray, Etta Mae Ford and Isabelle Rose Cronin; brothers, Roy, Bennie and Jimmie Snyder; sister, Eleanor Snyder; and 10 grandchildren.

Paige was preceded in death by her husband, Austin Paige; parents, Charles and Dolly Snyder; brother, Tony Snyder; sisters, Shelia Snyder, Shirley Snyder and Nellie Snyder; and grandparents Dakia and Zonnie Snyder.

Pallbearers will be Michael Joseph Ford, Ramone Alejandro Cronin, Raymond Alejandro Cronin, Kendall Tso, Nathaniel McCray and Gabriel McCray.

The family will receive relatives and friends at St. Paul Catholic Church Fellowship at 1 p.m. Tuesday.


Hoskie Yazzie

PINEDALE — Funeral services for Hoskie Yazzie, 83, will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, at Silver Creek Mortuary Chapel in Tse Bonito. Burial will be on family plot in Pinedale.

Yazzie died Oct. 19 in Albuquerque. He was born July 16, 1923, in China Springs, N.M.

Survivors include daughter, Julia Lee of Pinedale; nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Yazzie was preceded in death by his parents.

Pallbearers will be family members.


Linda Orecchia

GRANTS — Services for Linda Louise Orecchia, 64, of Grants, are pending.

Orecchia was born Dec. 16, 1941, in San Jose, Calif. She died Oct. 21 in Grants.

Compassion Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

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