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Dixie Bessie (Mustache) Mustache

December 3, 1937 — April 9, 2015

Dixie Mustache
Crownpoint, NM

Funeral services for Dixie Mustache, 77, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 15, 2015, at the Hosanna Pentecostal Church in Crownpoint. The Rev. Harry Cayatineto will officiate. Burial will be on a family plot in Little Water.

Mustache died April 9, 2015, in Gallup. She was born Dec. 3, 1937, in Little Water, into the Apache People Clan born for the Towering House People Clan.

Mustache was a rugweaver, homemaker, and a community mother. She was active in the Little Water Chapter and read the Navajo Bible. Mustache enjoyed singing church hymns.

Survivors include her sons Larry Mustache of Casamero Lake and Gary Yazzie of Little Water; daughters Bernice Etsitty of Little Water; sisters Nancy Pinto of Crownpoint, Dixie Yazzie of Crownpoint and Alice Benally of Little Water; 10 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents Ben and Martha Mustache; brothers Kim, Jimmie, Sam, Lloyd and Thomas and one grandson.

The family will receive relatives and friends at the Little Water Chapter House.

Cope Memorial Chapel in Gallup, NM is entrusted with arrangements.

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