Cause of death unknown
Public waiting for information on sister's killing

Copyright © 2009
Gallup Independent
By Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola
Independent correspondent

GALLUP — As the public waits for the release of Sister Marguerite Bartz’s autopsy report, fellow sisters from Bartz’s religious order are finalizing her funeral and burial arrangements.

Bartz, a Catholic sister who served the Diocese of Gallup on the Navajo Nation, was slain over the weekend at her Saint Berard mission home in Navajo, N.M. Her body was discovered on Sunday.

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