Deaths

• June, Kee
• Siebersma, Stanley
• Sonntag, Richard Jr.

Kee June

CHURCHROCK — Services are pending for Kee Y. June, 73.

June died Monday, Oct. 13, 2008, in Gallup. He was born May 28, 1935, in Kaibito, Ariz., into the Manygoat People Clan for the Giant Red Running Into Water People Clan.

A meeting for friends and relatives will be 6 p.m., tonight, Oct. 14, at the Churchrock Chapter House.

Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Stanley Siebersma

TEMPE, Ariz. — Memorial services for Stanley Siebersma, 83, will be 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 17, at the Arizona Community Church, 9325 S. Rural Road in Tempe. He was buried in the National Memorial Cemetery in Phoenix.

Siebersma died Oct. 3, 2008 in Tempe. He was born June 23, 1925 in Orange City, Iowa.

Siebersma was a U.S. Army veteran and lived in Orange City until 1957 when his family moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., where he graduated from the Reformed Bible Institute. He worked as a pastor in several churches in Michigan until the family moved to Fort Wingate where he was the pastor of several churches in the N.M. area including Pinedale, Fort Wingate, Navajo, N.M. and Bethany-Gallup. He had his wife moved to Mesa, Ariz., in 1980 where he was instrumental in the organization of the Maranatha Christian Reformed Church. He retired in 2005 and worked as an interior decorator at times and enjoyed his work with his church congregations.

Survivors include his wife Nelvy Hubers Siebersma; sons William Siebersma, Robert Siebersma, Michael Siebersma, Nolan Siebersma, Jan Siebersma; daughters Barbara Almada, Sharon Houston and Heidi Woods; 14 siblings; 20 grandchildren and nine great-grandchilcdren.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Hospice of the Valley (www.hospiceofthevalley.org)

Richard Sonntag Jr.

ALBUQUERQUE — Memorial services for Richard William Sonntag Jr., MD. will be at 1 p.m., Friday, Oct. 17 at French’s Mortuary, 7121 Wyoming Blvd. NE, in Albuquerque.

Sonntag died Oct. 10, 2008 in Albuquerque. He was born in Philadelphia, Pa., but spent most of his childhood in Salt Lake City where he graduated from East High School and the University of Utah. He attended Temple Medical University and received his MD. He was in the U.S. Air Force and was chief resident of Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, he worked on the Apollo space mission component testing, the F-111 fighter jet component testing and was assistant chief of ophthalmology at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas. After the Air Force he returned to New Mexico and set up private practice in Albuquerque and Gallup. He enjoyed reading, photography skiing and nature and being in the outdoors, especially in Yellowstone, Tetons and Jackson Hole. He was a patron of music in Corrales and Albuquerque and enjoyed spending time with his grandsons.

Survivors include his frother Russell Sonntag of Bountiful, Utah; sisters, Carol Sonntag and Marianne Sonntag, both of Salt Lake City; children Richard W. Sonntag III of Albuquerque, Eric Sonntag of Yorba Linda, Calif.; and two grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the National Parks Conservation Assn. 1300 19th Street 300, Washington, DC 20036 or the NM Affiliate of the American Diabetes Assn., 2625 Pennsylvania NE, Street 225, 87110.