ST. MICHAELS — Funeral services for Sadie Marie Hale, 66,
will be 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28 at St. Michaels Catholic Church.
Father Ron Walters will officiate. Burial will be in St. Michaels
Cemetery. Visitation will be at St. Michaels Catholic Church,
Sept. 28 at 12 p.m. A rosary will be recited at Rollie Mortuary,
Sept. 27 at 7 p.m.
Hale died Sept. 25, 2007 in Fort Defiance. She was born Aug.
9, 1941 in Hunterspoint, Ariz., into the One Who Walks Around
People Clan for the Black Sheep People Clan.
She attended St. Michaels Catholic School, Hunter’s Point
Boarding School, Holbrook High School, Window Rock Unified School
Dist. #8, St. Michaels Indian School. Hale was a dietician, culunary
master chef, food service director. Her hobbies were doing seamstress
work, doing crossword challenges, ranching, traveling with familly,
watching movies with grandchildren and helping relatives with
ceremonies.
Survivors include her husband, Vernon E. Hale Sr.; son, Vernon
Hale Jr.; daughters, Verna Hale-Tabaha, Laverne Emerson, Vera
Hale, Velma Hale, Verlena Begay, Vernonda Hale-Arlinda Betone;
sisters, Marie Tabaha, Martina Keeto, Theresa King; 10 grandchildren.
Hale was preceded in death by John and Maggie King, Francis King,
Mary Alice Arviso, Ada Wilson.
Pallbearers will be Darby Hale, Scotman Hale, Jerry Bitley, Elvin
Roanhorse Sr., Mike S. Begay, Harold Arviso.
The family will meet at St. Michael’s Chapter House, 6 p.m.
Sept. 26 and 27.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
LUPTON — Funeral services are pending for Leroy Smith, 81,
of Lupton, Ariz.
Smith died Sept. 24, 2007 in Phoenix.
Cope Memorial is in charge of arrangements.
