Get in Touch
365 Days of Grief Support
Sign up for one year of grief messages designed to offer hope and healing during the difficult first year after a loss
Local Obituaries for Families in Show Low, Snowflake, and Holbrook, AZ
James D. Russell
Oct 19, 2012
Dr. James D. Russell, 71, went quietly back to Heavenly Father on Friday, October 19, 2012. He passed away in Lakeside, Arizona. He was born in Tennessee to Edmund and Lillie Belle (Sullivan) Russell. He grew up in Missouri, went to college and worked in New Mexico, and lived the last fifteen years of his retirement in Snowflake. He married...
Dominique Von Lawson
Oct 19, 2012
Dominique Von Lawson, age 20, passed away Friday October 19, 2012 in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was born April 27, 1992 in Whiteriver, Arizona to Leon David Lawson Sr. and Samantha Johnson. He loved to play basketball and softball; he was always carrying a basketball with him. Dominique loved to go camping, fishing and hunting. He absolutely loved to spend time...
Joyce Reading Smith Turley
Oct 16, 2012
Joyce Reading Smith Turley passed away quietly in her sleep during the night of October 15-16th, 2012 in Chandler, Arizona. She was born on October 7, 1923 in Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah to the late Franklin Everett and Pearl Lavelda (Jensen) Reading. Joyce is survived by her loving husband, Frank L. Turley, son, Dennis H. (Sue) Smith, Jody (Daniel)...
Harold Bernard Payne
Oct 15, 2012
Harold Bernard Payne, of Springerville, Apache County, Arizona passed away following a lengthy illness, October 15, 2012 at Sierra Blanca Rehabilitation Center in Lakeside, Navajo County, Arizona. He was 82. Harold was born to the late Youmbert and Mary (Cornett) Payne on September 12, 1930 in Coxton, Harlan County, Kentucky. Harold was a veteran of the United States Marine Corps...
Rosaleen Marie Quintero
Oct 13, 2012
Rosaleen Marie Quintero died Saturday, October 13, 2012 at the Whiteriver Hospital in Whiteriver, Navajo County, Arizona at the age of 58. She was born on September 23, 1954 in Whiteriver to the late Gus, Sr. and Violet (Kane) Quintero and has lived her entire life in the White Mountains. Rosaleen graduated from Alchesay High School in 1973. Throughout her...
Alice Gatewood
Oct 11, 2012
Alice Gatewood, affectionately known as "Allie", died Thursday, October 14, 2012 at Summit Healthcare Regional Medical Center, Show Low, Navajo County, Arizona. She was 81 years old. Allie was born at home on November 10, 1930 in Canyon Day, Navajo County, Arizona to the late Hobart and Mabel (Josay) Griggs. Allie was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and friend throughout...
Henry Calija Daoang, Sr., SFC
Oct 8, 2012
Henry Calija Daoang, Sr., SFC, died in the afternoon hours of Monday, October 8, 2012, 3 days before his 59th wedding anniversary in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada. He was 81 years old. Henry was born on Saturday, July 18, 1931 in Waimanalo, Oahu in, then what was known as, the Territory of Hawaii to the late Gelacio and Helen...
Doran Macdonald Lee
Oct 5, 2012
Doran Macdonald Lee died Friday, October 5, 2012 at Tucson's V.A. Medical Center following a lengthy illness at the age 88. He was born on August 20, 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to the late Valentine and Leslie Dorothy (Macdonald) Lee. He was a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces and following his honorable discharge, Doran began a long and successful...
Erwin Mahonri Prestwich
Oct 2, 2012
Erwin Mahonri Prestwich was born in Delta, Utah on October 26, 1927, the seventh of twelve children. He passed away October 2, 2012 at his home in Snowflake. Erwin married Connie LaRue Hansen in the Manti Temple on March 31, 1951. They are the proud parents of eleven children: Karen (Alan) Cheney, Sandra (Richard) Rogers, Stephen (Sue) Prestwich, Garth(Bonnie) Prestwich,...
Thomas Orr Hutchison
Oct 2, 2012
Thomas Orr Hutchison died late Tuesday night, October 2, 2012 at Sierra Blanca Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Lakeside, Navajo County, Arizona. He was 77 years old. Thomas was born on Septembe 1, 1935 in Dubois, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania to the late Thomas and Anna (Morrison) Hutchison. Thomas has lived in Show Low for the past 12 years and thoroughly...
Doris Katherin Rowley
Oct 1, 2012
Doris Kathrin Rowley died Monday night, October 1, 2012 in Lakeside, Navajo County, Arizona at the Sierra Blanca Nursing Center. She was 90 years old. She was born April 8, 1922 in Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan to the late Orvil and Esther Hoadley. In her younger years Doris was a "Big Band" singer and traveled all over the country with...
Wilbert Nicholas Ernst
Oct 1, 2012
Wilbert Nicholas Ernst, "Ernie", died late Monday morning, October 1, 2012 at Sierra Blanca Nursing Center in Lakeside, Navajo County, Arizona following a lengthy illness. He was 82 years old. Wilbert was born on May 1, 1930 in Belleville, St. Clair County, Illinois to the late Oscar C. and Anna H. (Winkler) Ernst. As a young man, Wilbert served in...
Claryn Lee Hamstra-Acuna
Sep 28, 2012
Claryn Lee Hamstra-Acuna died Sunday morning, September 28, 2012 at her home at White Mountain Lake, Navajo County, Arizona following a lengthy illness. She was 61 years old. Claryn was born on February 21, 1951 in California to her parents and has lived in Arizona the past 13 years. She worked for the U.S. Postal Service for many years and...
Brody Adam MacDonald
Sep 27, 2012
Brody Adam MacDonald, 18 of Show Low, Arizona suddenly passed away September 27, 2012. Many will remember Brody in his many sports endeavors. Starting at a young age Brody enjoyed every sport available to him including Soccer, Baseball, wrestling, basketball, hunting, golf and especially football. His true passion was football. Brody was a graduate of Show Low High School 2012...
Vergin Christeen Harniss
Sep 27, 2012
Vergin Christeen (Murdock) Harniss of Lakeside, Arizona passed away shortly before midnight at Webb's Adult Care Home, Thursday, September 27, 2012. She was born in Brockett, Arkansas September 28, 1911, to Oscar Fremon and Barbra Ellen Barker Murdock. Mrs. Harniss was preceded in death by three husbands: Ulah J. Broadway, Wilfred L. Allen, and Lawrence T. Harniss; seven brothers and...
Raymond Duff Smith
Sep 27, 2012
Raymond Duff Smith 75, passed away at his home in Lakeside, Arizona on September 27, 2012. Duff was an avid hunter, fisherman, and outdoorsman. He supported and was a financial contributor to several wild life organizations. Duff was born in Youngstown, Ohio on July 16, 1937. He moved to Tucson in 1955 to attend the University of Arizona and became...
William Francis McKernan
Sep 26, 2012
William Francis McKernan died Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at Summit Healthcare Medical Center in Show Low, Arizona from natural causes. He was 74 years old. William was born on January 5, 1938 in Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas to the late Hugh Terrance and Oletha Blanche (Lang) McKernan. At the age of 8, William moved, with his family, to Arizona....
Floyd Lupe
Sep 24, 2012
Floyd Lupe, of Whiteriver, Navajo County, Arizona passed away peacefully September 24, 2012 at Summit Healthcare Regional Medical Center in Show Low, Navajo County, Arizona. He was 83. Floyd was born to the late Ellison and Sadie (Thompson) Lupe in Cibecue, Navajo County, Arizona on August 24, 1929. Floyd was a true "Cowboy". He loved to rodeo and was great...
Eva June Kilmer
Sep 23, 2012
Eva June Kilmer, 91 died September 23, 2012 in the comfort of her home. Loving daughter, sister, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Eva June Kilmer (June) was born in Russell City, Pennsylvania in 1921. She was the daughter of the late Myron Dewitt and Edith Robinson Jolly. At the age of 17 she owned June Kilmer's Beauty Salon which her dad...
Theodore Seth Turley
Sep 20, 2012
Theodore Seth Turley died Thursday morning, September 20, 2012 at the Summit Healthcare Regional Medical Center in Show Low, Navajo County, Arizona from causes incident to his age. He was 83 years old. "Ted", as he was affectionately known, was born on November 19, 1928 in Smithfield, Cache County, Utah to his parents, the late Harvey Isaac and Melba Oreta...
