Obituaries
Pilar Hernandez
Sep 5, 2016
Maria del Pilar Gavito Hernandez was born on October 27, 1932 in Ciudad Puebla, Puebla, Mexico to the late Alfredo and Hermelinda Gavito. She was married to Michael H. Hernandez on August 20, 1950 and in 1956 they made Ruidoso their permanent home. In 1973, Pilar embarked on a restaurant hospitality career for which she became widely well-known and...
Ida Koehler
Sep 4, 2016
Ida Rosalene Halstead was born January 15, 1924 in Rensselaer, Indiana. She passed away September 4, 2016 residing at the Mescalero Care Center. Ida graduated from Rensselaer High School and enlisted in the United States Marine Corp. Ida served from April 1945 until June 1949, being honorably discharged as Corporal Halstead. Ida married Franklin Albert Koehler, January 17, 1949...
Chandler Morgan
Sep 1, 2016
Morgan Chandler, 61, of Mescalero passed away Thursday, September 1, 2016, in Las Cruces, NM. He was born February 17, 1955 at Mescalero, NM to Angeline and Kenneth Morgan Sr. who both have preceded him in death. He has lived at Mescalero all of his life and was a security guard with the Mescalero Tribal Court. He is survived...
Richard Phillips
Aug 25, 2016
On August 25th, 2016, due to complications from an infection, Richard Hendricks Phillips passed away at 4:45 a.m. in his home near Lincoln, New Mexico. He died in the company of Elissa Phillips, his loving wife of 63 years, his daughter Rebecca Ferguson, his son-in-law Matt Ferguson, and his two dogs, Molly and Zipper. Richard was born in Roswell,...
Nancy Hobbs
Aug 24, 2016
Nancy Jean Hobbs, 78, of Ruidoso passed away on Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at her home. She was born October 3, 1937 at Kenton, Ohio. She moved to Lincoln County in 1973 from Roswell. In the 1960's she worked for N.A.S.A. She married Grady Hobbs on January 25, 1993 at Las Vegas, Nevada. She is survived by her husband...
Orval Blankenship
Aug 24, 2016
Orval Eugene Blankenship left us, bound for Heaven on Wednesday, August 24, 2016. He went quickly and peacefully from his home in Ruidoso Downs, NM. Ruidoso Downs had been his home since 1971 when he and his wife of nearly 67 years, Bonnie Wynona(Nona), journeyed from Sweetwater, Texas. Orval spent most of his life building and constructing, both in...
Connie Behringer
Aug 23, 2016
Connie Behringer was bora June 15,1933 in Coryell County, Texas, to A. B. & Irene Chitwood. She graduated in 1951 from Klondike High School and went to Drawn's Business College in Lubbock, Texas. After dating only three months, Connie married Jr. Behringer on April 11,1953 in Arkansas. He was stationed at Ft Leonard Wood, Missouri in the Army and...
Janice Rogers
Aug 21, 2016
Janice Ann Rogers was born on August 12,1947 in the Panhandle of Texas. Through her life she has lived in both Texas and New Mexico, in 1996 she moved to Ruidoso and knew she had found her home in which she always referred to as "Her Mountain". Jan Rogers passed peacefully in her home in Capitan surrounded by her...
Johnny Durham
Aug 16, 2016
Johnny D. Durham, 81, passed away on Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at his home in Ruidoso, NM surrounded by his family. Johnny fought long and hard, his battle with Parkinson's. Johnny was born and raised in Roswell, NM. By the time he was 19, he owned a used car lot called Durham's Auto Mart. It was also during his...
Joe Vega
Aug 12, 2016
Funeral service for Joe. J. (JoJo) Vega, 66, of Carrizozo will be Friday, August 19, 2016 at 10:00 A.M. in Santa Rita's Catholic Church in Carrizozo with burial to follow at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Cemetery with Father Mike officiating. Joe passed away Friday, August 12, 2016 at his home. He was born August 21, 1949 in Carrizozo...
Hugh Fox
Aug 9, 2016
Hugh R. Fox died on August 9 (2016) after a long illness. He was born on October 2, 1936, in Newark, New Jersey, son of Herman Rottmann Fox and Erma Lillian Rist. He attended schools there and then in Hanover, New Hampshire, graduating from Hanover High School in 1954. He was graduated from Dartmouth College ('58) where he majored...
Richard Dixon
Aug 8, 2016
Richard Alan Dixon, 62, of Alto passed away Monday, August 8, 2016 in Alto. He was born June 10, 1954 at Fairbanks, Alaska. He moved to Lincoln County in November of 2004 from Las Vegas, Nevada. He was a table games dealer at the Inn of the Mountain Gods Casino. He had worked at several casino's in Las Vegas...
Jean Gremillion
Aug 8, 2016
Jean Helen Gremillion passed away peacefully Monday, August 8, 2016 surrounded by her family in Albuquerque, NM. Jean was born August 14, 1940 in Bay City, Texas. She resided in Ruidoso for the last 16 years of her life with her husband, Earl. They spent their honeymoon together in Ruidoso in 1961 and kept coming back throughout their lives...
Gerald Comanche Sr.
Aug 4, 2016
Gerald Allen Comanche Sr., 68, of Mescalero passed away Thursday, August 4, 2016, at his home. He was born March 24, 1948 at Lawton, Oklahoma and lived most of his life at Mescalero. He served in Marine Corp during the Vietnam War. He was a Medicine Man of Maidens, was a road surveyor and firefighter for the Mescalero Apache...
Elree Gandy
Jul 27, 2016
Elree Harace Gandy was born on December 28,1923 to Richard Horace and Nannie Bell Williams Gandy in Caddo, Texas. He was the last surviving sibling of 12 children. Mr. Gandy passed away on July 27,2016 at the Good Samaritan Betty Dare Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico at the age of 92 after a brief illness. The family moved to...
Charles Rominger
Jul 26, 2016
Charles 0. Rominger, PhD, 79 years old, called Chuck or Judge, passed away on July 26, 2016. He had resided in New Mexico for over half his life and the past 37 years in Carrizozo, NM. Born in Fort Worth, Texas on June 1, 1937. Family owned the RX- Ranch where he was raised. He attended and was a...
Aron Portio
Jul 23, 2016
Aron Y. Portio, 84, long time resident of Carrizozo New Mexico entered into eternal rest on July 23, 2016. Aron was born in Lincoln, New Mexico . After school he joined the Army in 1952 and returned home in 1954 he worked at Holloman Air Force Base and retired in 1987. Mr. Portio was married to his wife Isabel...
Gordon Williams
Jul 23, 2016
Gordon Williams, 97, of Phoenix Arizona, was born January 23, 1919 to his father Nasitima and his mother Gyshynim in Old Oraibi Arizona. He was a Hopi Indian and belonged to the Eagle Clan. He graduated from Phoenix Indian School in 1939; learning the trade of masonry; he then enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. in 1944, was...
Dona Nunnally
Jul 20, 2016
Dona Rose Nunnally, age 75, passed away on July 20, 2016 in Craig, Colorado. She died surrounded by many loving family and friends. Dona was born in Lubbock, Texas on October 10th, 1940 to Chrystel Surginer. In 1946 they moved to Ruidoso, New Mexico where they owned Mockingbird Hill cabins in the Upper Canyon. Dona graduated from Ruidoso High...
Johnny Ramos
Jul 13, 2016
Johnny "John" Ramos, 63, of Ruidoso Downs, NM was called home to our Heavenly Father on July 13,2016, In Ruidoso Downs, NM. John was born in Las Cruces, NM to Raymundo and Juanita Ramos on August 11,1952. John grew up with his 2 brothers, Arturo and Albert, and his sister Yolanda. A born athlete, a friendly face with an...
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