Obituaries

David Hollingsworth
Oct 29, 2008
Memorial service for David Michael Hollingsworth, 31, of Ruidoso will be Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 11:00 AM in the Capitan Foursquare Gospel Church. Mr. Hollingsworth passed away Wednesday, Oct. 29, at his home in Ruidoso. He was born April 27, 1977 at Santa Maria, California. Mr. Hollingsworth had lived part time in Ruidoso and for the past 15 years...

Opal Rice
Oct 28, 2008
Opal Etola Rice, born September 4, 1920, passed away at a local care center on Tuesday, Oct. 28, following a long illness with Alzheimers disease. She was one of Jehovah's Witnesses and devoted her life to the doing of God's will of preaching the good news of the Kingdom rule by Christ Jesus. She was preceded in death by...

Casey Castillo
Oct 27, 2008
Funeral mass for Casey Castillo, 90, of El Paso will be Thursday, Oct. 30, at 10:00 A.M. in Sacred Heart Catholic Church at Capitan with burial to follow at the Capitan Cemetery. Mrs. Castillo passed away Monday, Oct. 27, in El Paso. She was born October 3, 1918 at Rodey, New Mexico. She had lived in Capitan from 1996...

Mary Kazhe-Gonzalez
Oct 26, 2008
Funeral mass for Mary A. Kazhe Gonzalez, 60, of Mescalero will be Friday, Oct. 31, at 10:00 AM in St. Joseph's Mission at Mescalero. She passed away Sunday, Oct. 26, in Ruidoso. She was born August 15, 1948 at Lincoln, Nebraska, she was raised in Tularosa and moved to Mescalero 40 years ago. She loved to go to the...

Jacob Martinez
Oct 21, 2008
Prayer service for Jacob Martinez, 24, of Mescalero will be Friday, Oct. 24, at 7:00 PM at St. Joseph's Mission where the funeral mass will be on Saturday, Oct. 25, at 1:00 PM with burial to follow at the Mescalero Cemetery. Jacob passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at Mescalero. He was born October 27, 1983 at Mescalero and...

Timothy Rich
Oct 20, 2008
Visitation for Timothy H. Tim Rich, 80, of Ruidoso will be Friday, Oct. 24, at LaGrone Funeral Chapel from 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM. Funeral services will be Saturday, Oct. 25, at 9:30 AM in the Episcopal Church of the Holy Mount with military honors and masonic rites at Ft. Stanton Cemetery. Mr. Rich passed away Monday, Oct. 20,...

Richard Parsons Sr.
Oct 10, 2008
The Honorable Richard A. Parsons Sr. passed away on Friday, October 10, 2008 in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the age of 81. Judge Parsons was born in Eldorado, Kansas on November 23, 1926. After serving as a Naval Cadet during World War II, Judge Parson, attended the first class of the School of Law at the University of New...

Conrad Starr
Oct 10, 2008
Prayer service for Conrad Boy Starr, 57, of Mescalero will be Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 7:00 PM at the residence on Mustang Drive with the funeral service on Thursday, Oct. 16, in the Mescalero Assembly of God Church at Noon. Burial will follow on the Starr property on Mescalero Blvd. Mr. Starr passed away Friday, Oct. 10, in Albuquerque....

Martha Chino
Oct 9, 2008
Funeral service for Martha Jane Chino, 69, of Mescalero will be Saturday, Oct. 11, at 10:00 AM in the Mescalero Reformed Church with burial to follow at the Mescalero BRCemetery. Officiating will be the Rev. Bob Schut. Ms. Chino passed away Thursday, Oct. 9, in Ruidoso. She was born April 1, 1939 at Mescalero and had lived there all...

Clifford Sambrano
Sep 27, 2008
CLIFFORD SAM ALFRED SAMBRANO Visitation for Clifford Sam Alfred Sambrano of Tularosa will be at 3:00 PM on Tuesday September 30, 2008 at LaGrone Funeral Chapel in Ruidoso. A Prayer Vigil will follow visitation at 6:00 PM. Funeral Mass will be at 10:00 AM at St. Jude's Catholic Church in San Patricio with burial to follow at the Salcido...

Bonnye Rich
Sep 24, 2008
Visitation for Bonnye M. Rich, 76, of Ruidoso will be Friday, Sept. 26, from 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM at LaGrone Funeral Chapel with the funeral service at 9:30 AM in the Episcopal Church of the Holy Mount. Burial will follow at Ft. Stanton Cemetery. Mrs. Rich passed away Wednesday, Sept. 24, at her home. She was born February...

Zane Petty
Sep 21, 2008
Zane Harkey Petty went to be with her Lord on September 21, 2008. Zane was born on March 5, 1923 in Carrizozo, NM to John Wesley Harkey and Minnie Dalton Harkey. She married Ralph F. Petty in Carrizozo, NM in 1941 and together they raised four children. Zane's love for music won her a scholarship to Colorado Women's College...

Mary Turner
Sep 19, 2008
Memorial service for Mary Ruth Reaves Turner, 85, of Ruidoso will be Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 11:00 AM in the First Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Turner passed away Friday, Sept. 19, at Mescalero. She was born July 25, 1923 at Blue Mountain, Mississippi to Docia and Oscar Reaves who precede her in death. Mary graduated from Blue Mountain High School,...

Bobby Mcaninch
Sep 16, 2008
A memorial service for Bob McAninch, 77, of Capitan will be Saturday, Sept. 20, at 11:00 A.M. in the Capitan United Methodist Church. Mr. McAninch passed away Tuesday, Sept. 16, in Ruidoso. He was born September 3, 1931 at Waco, Texas to Florence and James McAninch. He was a member of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsman for 56 years, a...

Rafaela Parra
Sep 11, 2008
A funeral mass for Rafaela Apodaca Parra, 58, of Carrizozo will be Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 10:00 AM in Santa Rita's Catholic Church in Carrizozo. Ms. Parra passed away Thursday, Sept. 11, in Ruidoso. She was born July 17, 1950 in Carrizozo to Ernesto Apodaca and Pauline A. Manriquez who both precede her in death. Rafaela loved to go...

Kenneth Ramey
Sep 8, 2008
Kenneth G. Ramey died September 8, 2008 in Ruidoso, New Mexico. He was born January 3, 1929 in Oklahoma. At eighteen, he joined the United States Army Air Force and was stationed in San Antonio and Alaska. After he left the Army he became a member of the El Paso Fire Department, retiring after twenty-five years. He loved the...

Charles Butts
Sep 5, 2008
Visitation for Todd Butts, 43, of Captian will be Sunday, Sept. 7, in LaGrone Funeral Chapel of Ruidoso from 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM with the funeral service on Monday, Sept. 8, at 3:30 PM also in LaGrone Funeral Chapel of Ruidoso with burial to follow at the Ruidoso Hondo Valley Cemetery. Mr. Butts passed away Friday, Sept. 5,...

Charles Hugar
Sep 3, 2008
The prayer service for Charles Edgar Hugar, 78, of Mescalero will be Sunday, Sept. 7, at 6:00 PM in the Mescalero Reformed Church, the funeral service will be Monday, Sept. 8, at 10:00 AM in the Mescalero Tribal Center Gym with military burial to follow at the Mescalero Cemetery. Mr. Hugar passed away Wednesday, Sept. 3, in Ruidoso. He...

Maude Adams
Sep 2, 2008
Funeral service for Carol Adams, 76, of Ruidoso will be Thursday, Sept. 4, at 5:00 P.M. in the First Christian Church of Ruidoso with a graveside service on Friday, Sept. 5, at 4:00 PM in the Plainview Memorial Park in Plainview, Texas. Mrs. Adams passed away Tuesday, Sept. 2, in Albuquerque. She was born February 24, 1932 at Hollis,...

Vernon Miller Sr.
Sep 1, 2008
Graveside service for Vernon Lee Miller, Sr., 82, of Nogal will be Thursday, Sept. 4, at 1:00 PM in Nogal Cemetery with Mr. Leslie Earwood officiating. Mr. Miller passed away Monday, Sept. 1, in Ruidoso. He was born October 31, 1925 at Lonewolf, Oklahoma. He moved to Nogal in 1969 from El Paso , Texas. He was retired from...