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Joseph Campos

GALLUP — Funeral Mass for Joseph Tacho Campos, 82, will be at 10 a.m. Friday, June 1, 2007, at Sacred Heart Cathedral. Father O'Keefe will officiate. Private disposition will be in Sunset Memorial Cemetery.

A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. today, May 31 at Sacred Heart Cathedral.

Campos died May 28 in Gallup. He was born July 12, 1924 in Gallup.

Campos retired after 30 years of service with Bureau of Indian Affairs as a Warehouse Clerk. His hobbies included playing pool, singing, playing softball, and participating in the Senior Olympics.

Survivors include his sons Jacob Campos, Paul Campos, and Abel Campos; daughters, Denise Campos; 13 grandchildren; and 13 great grandchildren.

Campos was preceded in death by his wife Delores Campos; sons, Thomas Campos and Peter Campos, Sr.; daughters, Victoria Campos and Monica Campos; and one grandson.

Pallbearers will be Dominic Campos, Sr., Dominic Campos, Jr., Abel Campos, Jr., Chris Campos, Andres Campos, Jason Campos, Benjamin Campos, and Joseph Campos.

The family will receive relatives and friends at Sacred Heart Cathedral Family Center.

Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.


Donald Robertson

SAWMILL — Funeral Services for Donald Alvin Robertson, 49, will be at 10 a.m. June 1, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in St. Michaels. Shelly Prows will officiate. Burial will be at a family plot in Sawmill.

Visitation will be one hour prior to services.

Robertson died May 24 in Gallup. He was born Jan. 24, 1958 in Los Angeles, into the Salt Water Clan for the Bitter Water Clan.

Robertson attended Crystal Boarding School, and graduated from Intermountain School in Utah, class of 1977. He was employed in Riverton, Wyo. as a uranium mine worker, and for Peabody Coal Mine Company as a heavy equipment operator. Robertson enjoyed watching NBA basketball games, hiking, horseback riding, making sash belts, building monster trucks, and spending time with family.

Survivors include his sons, Duane Robertson of Pocatello, Idaho, Orlando Robertson, Donavan Robertson-Hunt both of Farmington, Travis Robertson of Flagstaff; daughters, Orilinda Ann Wauneka of Navajo, Samantha Robertson, Samaleid Robertson both of Flagstaff; mother, Louise K. Robertson of Los Angeles, Calif.; brother, Thomas Scott Craighead of Connersville, Ind.; and five grandchildren.

Robertson is preceded in death by his grandparents, Yilthnasbah Yazzie and Charley Yazzie.

The family will receive relatives and friends at the Yazzie residence in Sawmill.

Cope Memorial is in charge of arrangements.


Guy Six

PINE SPRINGS — Funeral services for Guy Six, 86, will be at 11 a.m. Friday, June 1, at St. John the Evangelist. Rec. Cormac Amtram, OFM, will officiate. Burial will follow on family land in Pine Springs.

Six died May 29 in Gallup. He was born Feb. 15, 1921 in Pine Springs into the One Who Walks Around You Clan for the Big Water Clan.

Survivors include his wife, Mary T. Six of Houck; sons, Anderson Six of Houck, Vinson Six of Pine Springs, and Edison Six of Houck; daughters, Lilly A. White of Pine Springs, Rose Yellowhair of Pine Springs, Elsie Six of Phoenix, Isabel Six of Pine Springs, Julia Six-Johnson of Sanders, Marian Arviso of Fort Defiance, and Ruthie Yellow horse of Pine Springs; sisters, Doris Dodge of Crystal and Kathrene Yazzie of Houck; 29 grandchildren; and 18 grandchildren.

Six was preceded in death by his father, John Six, Sr.; mother, Mary B. Six; brothers, William Six, Sr., John Six, Jr., and Eugene Six, Sr.; sister, Lucille Frank.

Pallbearers will be Corp. Alfa Six, Vinson Six, Jr., Sgt. Arlison Six, Darren Six, Vanson Six, and Troy Six.

Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.


Sharon Platero

MESA — Funeral services for Sharon Deanna Platero, 35, will be at 11 a.m. today, May 31, 2007 at the Living Word Bible Church in Mesa. Burial will be at 5 p.m. Friday, June 1 in Marysvale, Utah.

Platero was born Aug. 15, 1971 in Long Beach, Calif. into the Near the Water Clan for the Salt Clan.

Platero graduated from St. Michaels High School and attended Apollo College in Phoenix. She was employed with Sonora Quest Laboratories in Tempe as a Medical Lab Tech. Platero toured one year at Page Medical Center in Page.

Survivors include her parents, Pauline Peshlakai of Houck and Daniel Platero of Albuquerque; foster parents, Caroline and Myron Anderson of Mount Pleasant; Ed Becenti of Tempe; sons, Joshua Ed-Natay Becenti, Jacob Nataani Becenti, Jonah Notah Becenti all of Mesa; daughter, Shaunacy Becenti of Mesa; sisters, Geri Sam, Shannon Tryon, Melissa Peshlakai all of Mesa, Heather Kee of Window Rock, Tasha Peshlakai of Houck, Bernisha Platero and Demitria Platero both of Albuquerque; foster sisters, Jill Green of Montana and Celest Boothe of Mount Pleasant, Utah; stepsisters, Wauneka Andrade of Houston, Texas and Someka Becenti of Phoenix; brothers, Shadoan Platero of Mesa, Myron Platero and Chad Platero both of Albuquerque; foster brother, David Anderson of Mount Pleasant; stepbrother, Solito Juan-Tso Becenti of Phoenix.


Willie Bahe

PRETTY ROCK, NM — Services for Willie Y. Bahe, 70, will be announced at a later date.

Bahe died May 30, 2007 in Gallup. He was born Feb. 3, 1937 in Rocky Point.

A family gathering will be at 5 p.m. Friday, June 1 at the Tseyatoh Chapter House.

Cope Memorial is in charge of arrangements.

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