Deaths

• David Mitchell, Sr.
• Adrian Harper

David Mitchell, Sr.

FORT DEFIANCE — Funeral services for David Mitchell, Sr., 80, will be at 10 a.m. Friday, July 20 at Our Lady of Blessed Sacrament Church in Fort Defiance. Father Ronald Walters and Deacon Daniel Martin. Burial will follow at Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Fort Defiance.

Visitation will be one hour prior to services. A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. at Our Lady of Blessed Sacrament Church.

Mitchell, Sr. died July 16 in Fort Defiance. He was born March 9, 1927 in Chinle into the Towering House People Clan for the Water Flows Together Clan.

Mitchell, Sr. was a U.S. Army Veteran, Member of the All Indian Rodeo Association (Gold member #48), Board of Directors, Vice President, and a parent sponsor and supporter. His hobbies include drawing, training horses, and traveling. He was a carpenter, electrician, and a handy man. Mitchell retired from Window Rock Unified School District as a Maintenance Supervisor.

Survivors include his wife, Rose Mitchell; son, David Mitchell, Jr.; daughters, Gloria Mitchell, Geraldine Watson, Gwendowlyn Mitchell, and Priscilla Mitchell; brother, John Mitchell; sister, Mary Tsosie; 11 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

Mitchell was preceded in death by his parents, Billy and Rachel Jones Mitchell; daughter, Gloria Mitchell.

Pallbearers will be Glenn Slivers, Mychal Slivers, Joaquin Watson, Sr., Joaquin Watson, Jr., Fred Slivers, and Derrick Saganitso.

Silver Creek Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Adrian Harper

LOS LUNAS — Services for Adrian Harper, 81, were July 7 at Calvary Temple Assembly of God in Albuquerque. Rev. Clyde Johnson and Rev. Ken George officiated. Burial followed at Sunset Memorial.

Harper died July 3. He was born November 17, 1925 in Ash Grove, Missouri.

Harper was the pastor of Gallup First Assembly of God Church from 1960 to 1976.

Survivors include his wife, Lila of Bosque Farms; sons, Rudy Harper of Seattle, Wash. and Steve Harper of Gallup; daughters, Lynn Davis of Los Lunas and Darlene Logan of Bosque Farms; five brothers; four sisters; 14 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.