Debra Benally
Crownpoint, NM
Services for Debra Jean Benally, 47, will be at 11 a.m. Friday, July 18, 2014, at the Lighthouse Church of Crownpoint. Burial will be in Crownpoint. Visitation will be at noon Friday, July 18, 2014, at the Lighthouse Church in Crownpoint.
Benally died July 11, 2014, in Albuquerque. She was born Dec6, 1966, in Crownpoint, into the Bitter Water People Clan born for the Meadow People Clan.
Benally graduated from CIT and took care of children and the elderly. She enjoyed making sash belts, and being with her children, grandchildren and husband.
Survivors include her sons Shawndean Platero of Crownpoint, Tysen Benally of Crownpoint, and Jasen Benally of Crownpoint; daughters Wendy Platero and Andrea Platero both of Salt Lake City; parents Lillian Kalleco of Becenti and Tommy Mariano of Crownpoint; sisters Yvonne Kalleco of Bloomfield, Freda Benally of Becenti and Karen Atene of Monument Valley and six grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Bensen Benally Sr.; and brothers Ronald Shorty and Leroy Mariano.
Pallbearers will be Shawndean Platero, Tysen Benally, Roland Morgan, Lyle Morgan, Bobby Morgan and Adriano Morgan.
Cope Memorial Chapel of Gallup, NM is entrusted with arrangements.
Service Details
Friday, July 18th, 2014 11:00am, Gospel Lighthouse Crownpoint
Interment Details
Community Cemetery Crownpoint, NM