Deaths

• Casamero, Jimmie
• Tecklenburg, Martha
  

Jimmie Casamero

MARIANO LAKE — Veteran memorial service for Jimmie Casamero, 89 will be 10 a.m., Saturday Oct. 4, at Crownpoint Christian Reform Church. The Rev. Ted Charles will officiate.

Casamero died Sept. 29, 2008, in Mariano Lake. He was born Feb. 5, 1919, in Mariano Lake into the Water Flows Together People Clan, for the Black Streak People Clan.

Casamero attended Sherman Indian School. He worked for the railroad, he was a WWII Veteran.
Survivors include his sister, Sally Thompson; wife, Louise Casamero.

Casamero was preceded in death by his brothers, James Greyhair, Roy Kee Yazzie, Cecil Casamero, Woody Casamero; sisters, Shubah, DeBah, Mary Casamero, Sadie Casamero, Mae Casamero, and Julia Casamero; parents, Hostiin Tse-Na Ginny and Asdzaa Chili‘.

Martha Tecklenburg

GRANTS — Memorial services for Martha M. Tecklenburg, 97, will be 1 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 18, at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1100 E. Mesa Ave., Gallup.

Tecklenburg died Sept. 16, 2008, in Grants. She was born Jan. 3, 1911, in Alva, Okla.

Martha taught elementary grades in Costilla, N.M. She returned to Okla. where she earned a Bachelors degree at Oklahoma Northwestern College, Alva. She had several teaching jobs before arriving in Gallup in the early 1940’s. She and her husband moved to Taos and Zuni where she taught in the Pueblo Day School and Zuni High School. In 1961 Martha earned her Masters degree from NM Highlands University and made a permanent move back to Gallup where she continued teaching until retirement in 1975. Tecklenburg was chosen teacher of the year in 1970, and in 1974 the National Education Association of N.M. Northwest District elected her to their Hall of fame.

Tecklenburg was preceded in death by her husband, Bob Tecklenburg; parents, Edward G. and Ida Kletke; sisters, Erna Randall, Hildagarde Kirmse, Ella Engelkeu; brother, Harold Kletke.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be to Trinity Lutheran Church, Gallup, Good Samaritan Society, Grants or to the charity of your choice.