FORT DEFIANCE — Funeral services for Lulla Mae Bowman, 57,
will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 31, at Good Shepard Mission in
Fort Defiance. Rev. Richard Red Stevens will officiate. Burial
will follow at the family plot in Coal Mine.
Visitation will be one hour prior to services.
Bowman died Aug. 26, 2007, in Albuquerque. She was born February
7, 1950 in Fort Defiance into the Salt People Clan for the Mud
People Clan.
Bowman attended elementary school in Tse Bonito, Junior High
School in Gallup, and High School in Anadarko, Okla., class of
1968. She was employed at Lucero’s Trading Post, Merchants
Bank, Sunwest Bank, and KTNN Radio Station for 27 years. Bowman
received numerous awards and certificates. She supported her sons’
participation in basketball and football.
Survivors include her husband, Raymond Bowman, Sr.; sons, Lionel
John, Lanagan Bowman, and Raymond Bowman, Jr.; brothers, Wilfred
Joe Morris and Emery Joe Morris; sisters, Maggie M. Brown, Shirley
John, and Linda Patcigo; and three grandchildren.
Bowman was preceded in death by her parents, Joe and Isabelle
Morris; grandparents, Charley and Lena Morris, Hoskie Joe Morris
and Louise Morris.
Pallbearers will be Reynaldo P. Brown, Ramone E. Brown, Alonzo
John, Dalvin John, Marcus Benally, Michael McCray.
The family will receive relatives and friends at Good Shepard
Thorne Building in Fort Defiance.
KINLICHEE, Ariz. — Funeral services for James J. Abe, 84,
will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 31 at Rollie Mortuary. Pastor
Jay McCollum will officiate. Burial will follow in Kinlichee.
Visitation will be at Rollie Mortuary.
Abe died Aug. 25, 2007, in Gallup. He was born May 15, 1923 in
Kinlichee into the Honey Comb Rock People Clan.
Survivors include his sons, Ronald Abe, Herman Abe, and William
Abe; daughters, Winifred V. Abe and Genieve Abe; 18 grandchildren;
and eight great-grandchildren.
Abe was preceded in death by his parents, John Abe and Yeah Kes
Bah Abe.
Pallbearers will be family members.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
PREWITT — Services for Brian Piaso, 34, will be announced
at a later date.
Piaso died Aug. 27, 2007, in Santa Fe. He was born April 18,
1973 in Crownpoint.
