Local Obituaries for Families in Show Low, Snowflake, and Holbrook, AZ
Taffanie Sann Kelly
Jan 23, 2007
Taffanie S. Kelly, age 39, of Lakeside, AZ passed away January 23, 2007 at Navapache Regional Medical Center in Show Low. Mrs. Kelly was a homemaker. She was born September 22, 1967 in Sandusky, Ohio. She moved to Arizona when she was an infant and grew up in Snowflake. In 1986, she met and married Patrick M. Kelly. Private Memorial...
Esther Val Hall
Jan 20, 2007
Esther Val Brewer Hall, age 85, beloved mother and grandmother passed away Saturday, January 20, 2007 in Mesa. She was born in Pinedale, Arizona on February 21, 1921. She married Harrison P. Hall in 1939 and made their home in Show Low, she was the librarian there for over twenty years, but her true passion was her family. She was...
James Edward Martin
Jan 19, 2007
James Edward Martin, age 81, passed away Friday, January 19, 2007 at the RTA Hospice and Palliative Care Center in Lakeside. He was born on June 28, 1925 in Waurika, Oklahoma to Earl and Marie Martin. Mr. Martin was raised in Harrah, Oklahoma where he attended school graduating in 1944. James joined the Air Force and served for a year...
Clemm David Evans, Jr.
Jan 19, 2007
Clemm D. Evans, Jr. age 85, of Show Low passed away Friday, January 19, 2007 at his home. He was born on January 30, 1921 to Clemm D. & Mildred (Richmond) Evans in Keshena, Wisconsin. Mr. Evans graduated from Globe High School. After high school he attended Oregon State at Corvallis and Arizona State University. Clemm was a veteran of...
John Johnson
Jan 19, 2007
John Wesley 'Jack' Johnson, age 80 passed away at his home in Taylor January 19, 2007. He was born March 7, 1926 in San Pedro, CA to John Ellis and Erma Ann Simkins Johnson. He served in the Navy and was a manager of a Feed Store. He has lived in Arizona for the past 19 years. He is survived...
Warren E. Briggs
Jan 15, 2007
Warren E. Briggs, age 81, passed away January 15, 2007 at his home in Snowflake. He was born August 23, 1925 in Trowbridge, CA. He joined the Navy when he was 16 years old and was stationed in Hawaii the day Pearl Harbor was bombed. He never did get completely over that time of his life. He was discharged in...
Patricia Kay Bulicek
Jan 11, 2007
Memorial services will be held January 16, 2007 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Lakeside. Internment will folow at the Lakeside Cemetery.
Sharon Balzer
Jan 11, 2007
Sharon Lee Balzer, 65, of Lakeside, Arizona, passed away, January 11,2007 in Phoenix. Mrs. Balzer, the owner of Sharon's High and Dried Floral Design Studio, was born September 4, 1941 in Indianapolis, Indiana. She grew up and attended school there until she was 10, when her family moved to Pleasant Hill, California. They remained there for about six years before...
Magdalena Garcia
Jan 7, 2007
Magdalena Garcia, age 103, went home to her Creator on January 7, 2007. She was born in Ceuervo, New Mexico on October 25, 1903. She grew up in Concho, Arizona until she married and then lived in different towns in the White Mountains before moving to Snowflake in 1939, where she lived the rest of her life. She was preceded...
Sandra Grant
Jan 6, 2007
Sandra Grant, 47 of Whiteriver, passed away January 6, 2007 in Payson. Mrs. Nez, a payroll clerk for the Whiteriver School District, was born September 4, 1959 in Whiteriver. Sandra grew up in Whiteriver and graduated from East Fork High School, following high school she attended college at Central Arizona College in Casa Grande, where she studied nursing. Following school...
Claire Marie Ludowe
Jan 3, 2007
Claire Marie Malette Ludowe, 79 of Pinetop, Arizona passed away January 3, 2007 at her home. Mrs. Ludowe, a registered nurse, was born March 6, 1927 in Windsor, Ontario Canada. She grew up and attended school in Windsor, graduating from St. Mary's Academy. Following high school Claire attended the University of Western Ontario, graduating with a Bachelor of Science Degree...
Claire Marie Ludowe
Jan 3, 2007
Claire Marie Malette Ludowe, 79 of Pinetop, Arizona passed away January 3, 2007 at her home. Mrs. Ludowe, a registered nurse, was born March 6, 1927 in Windsor, Ontario Canada. She grew up and attended school in Windsor, graduating from St. Mary's Academy. Following high school Claire attended the University of Western Ontario, graduating with a Bachelor of Science Degree...
Fannie Odell Smiddy
Dec 29, 2006
Fannie Odell Smiddy, 79, passed to her reward and rest in the Lord on December 29, 2006 at RTA Hospice in Lakeside. Fannie was born in Cookeville, Tennessee on February 27, 1927 to Eddie and Pearlie Jane Hood. She had lived in the White Mountains for 38 years. Mrs. Smiddy cooked for the children and staff of the Show Low...
James Lopez
Dec 29, 2006
James Jim' Lopez, age 45, of Snowflake, passed away December 29, 2006. He was born April 9, 1961 in Ontario, Oregon to Alejandro and Elva Lopez. Jim married Paula Bateman on June 9, 1984 in Weiser, Idaho and they were later sealed in the Mesa Arizona Temple in August of 1988. Jim was an exceptionally loving, generous and compassionate husband...
Inez Gardner
Dec 27, 2006
Inez Hatch Gardner, age 92, passed away Wednesday, December 27, 2006 in Mesa, Arizona. She was born in Woodruff, Arizona on March 19, 1914 to Albert & Zina (Brinkerhoff) Hatch. Inez was a lifetime member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and spent many years as an officer or teacher in the organizations of the church. She...
Bryon Elvis Ivins
Dec 20, 2006
Byron Elvis Ivins 21, of Cibecue, passed away on December 20, 2006. Byron was born February 25, 1985 in Whiteriver Arizona to the late Marvin Ivins and Saraphina Lee. He received his education in Cibecue. After his schooling, he worked as a firefighter and a tree planter for the Forestry Department for the White Mountain Apache Tribe. He also worked...
Ernest Edward Harris, Sr.
Dec 20, 2006
Ernest Edward Harris, 83 joined his Heavenly Father on December 20, 2006, in Show Low, AZ. He was raised in Safford Valley and has lived in the Show Low area for the past 49 years. After serving time in the Army Air Corp he returned to Arizona and married Laura Louise Brownfield on October 27, 1951. He loved gardening, fishing,...
Lois Irene Powell
Dec 17, 2006
Lois Irene Nutting Powell, age 78, of Holbrook, passed away in her sleep on Sunday December 17, 2006 at home. Mrs. Powell was a homemaker and a substitute schoolteacher. She was born April 30, 1928 in St. Johns. Her family moved to Holbrook in 1929, where she attended school, and graduated from Holbrook High School in 1946. Following high school...
Viola Avilla
Dec 16, 2006
Viola Maxine Avilla, age 79, passed away peacefully on Saturday December 16, 2006 in Show Low. She was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1927. She is survived by 4 daughters, Barbara June Hall, Betty Jean (Gerry) Szyszko, Candy (Kenneth) Marsh-Moore, and Pamela Aspgren; 3 sons, Karl (Judy) Aspgren, Bruce (Mary) Aspgren and Timothy (Jackie) Avilla; one sister, Josephine Morre; 19...
Natividad (Tive) Gallegos
Dec 16, 2006
Natividad (Tive) Gallegos, 87 has joined the Lord on December 16, 2006. Tive was preceded in death by her husband Joe, daughter Rita, two brothers and one sister. She was born in Moquino, NM, and moved to McNary when she was seventeen, She married Joe Gallegos and soon moved to Holbrook, where she spent the rest of her life except...
