Deaths

• Roland Carey
• Leslie Teller
• Jessie Bilagody

Roland Carey

SUN CITY — Funeral services for Roland Alfred Carey, 72, will be 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 24 at the First Presbyterian Church, 12225 N. 103 Ave., Sun City, Arizona. Interment will be at a later date.

Roland died Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007. He was born April 11, 1935 in Scofield, Utah.

He graduated from Wasatch Academy in 1953, received his BS degree from Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah in 1961, and attained his MA in Education at Northern Arizona University. Roland began his career in education in 1961 as a teacher, then principal, at Dowa Yalanne Elementary School in Zuni. He worked in various administrative positions with the McKinley County School district central office before retiring in 1988.

Survivors include his wife, Ethel Vanderwagen Carey of Sun City, Ariz.; sons, Jeff Carey of Roswell, Michael Carey of Albuquerque; one grandchild; one great-grandchild.

Roland was preceded in death by his father, Alfred Carey; mother, Ena Maud Carlson Carey; sister, Eileen Krebs; brother, Robert Carey; and one grandson.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Zuni Christian Reformed School – new building fund, PO Box 445. Zuni, New Mexico 87327

Leslie Teller

ALBUQUERQUE — Funeral services are pending for Leslie W. Teller, 25.

Teller died Oct. 20, 2007 in Albuquerque. He was born Aug. 3, 1982 in Fort Defiance.

A family gathering will be on Oct. 23 at the Del Muerto Presbyterian Church.

Jessie Bilagody

TUBA CITY — Funeral services for “Grandpa” Jessie Bilagody, 88, will be 10 a.m. DST, Tuesday, Oct. 23 at the Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Church in Tuba City. Burial will be at Tuba City Cemetery.

Bilagody was born Dec. 24, 1919 into the Bitter Water People Clan for the Zuni, Water’s Edge People Clan.

He attended Tuba City Boarding School and worked as a carpenter, railroad worker and worked at Belmont, Ariz. during the war doing weapons duty.

Survivors include wife, Annette B. Bilagody; sons, Roy Bilagody, Bill Ogden, James Bilagody, Jack Hofeling; daughters, Martha J. Shorty, Ann Thompson, Lucita A. Bennett; many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Reception and luncheon will be Tuesday, Oct. 23 at Grandma Annette B. Bilagody’s hogan, northwest of Tuba City, across the street from the Individeo Satellite Compound.