STANDING ROCK, N.M. — Services for John Henry Jones, Sr., 84, will be announced at a later date. Jones died June 18, 2009 in Crownpoint. He was born March 17, 1925 into the Sleeping Hanging over the Rock People Clan for the Red Running Into the Water People Clan. Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
CONCORD, Calif. — A Memorial service for Norene Vidal Williams, 92, will be at 1 p.m., Friday, July 10 at the Church of the Holy Spirit, 1334 Couuntry Club Drive in Gallup.
Williams died June 16, 2009 in Concord, Calif. She was born on July 17, 1916 in Farmington and spent her childhood in Crystal, N.M. on the Navajo Reservation, where her parents, Charles and Madge Newcomb had a trading post for many years. Norene was homeschooled at Crystal and went to school in Iowa and at the Loretta Academy in Santa Fe. She graduated from Gallup High School in 1933 and attended the University of New Mexico.
She taught elementary school in the Gallup area for two years, and then in 1938, she married Johnnie Vidal. Johnnie owned and operated Vidal Hardware in Gallup until his death at the age of 37 in 1951.
Survivors include her three children; John R. Vidal, M. Christine Paynton and Timothy J. Vidal; two sisters, Doris A. Newcomb Baker and Shirley C. Newcomb; eight grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren.
Norene raised her children in Gallup, attended the Episcopal Church, and served on the boards and committees of the New Mexico Council on Crime and Delinquency, Girl Scouts, Gallup Public Library Board, the Episcopal Church, United Way, Heart Drive and Cancer Drive. She was on the P.E.O. State Board for many years, and served as State President of P.E.O. in New Mexico in 1964.
In 1974, she married Charles Williams, who owned Navajo Motors in Gallup and raised Appaloosa horses on a small ranch south of Gallup. He died in 1996 survived by three children, Lance, Hugh and Bruce Williams, and seven grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to a charity of your choice.
