Dwayne Dean Begay Jr

Dwayne Begay

Funeral services for Dwayne "Nago" Begay Jr., 26, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013, at the Prewitt Assembly of God. The Rev. Ruth Droll will officiate. burial will be at Thoreau Community Cemetery.

Begay died Nov. 19, 2013, in Prewitt. He was born July 12, 1987, in Gallup, into the Meadow People Clan born for the Salt People Clan.

Begay attended Borrego Pass School and was self employed. He loved to play golf and loved his siblings. Begay always had a smile on his face and loved to be around his family.

Survivors include his mother Loretta Martinez, of Prewitt; father Dwayne Begay Sr., of Prewitt; stepmother Carol C. Begay, of Prewitt; brothers Vince Chapo, of Sanders, Ariz., and Darren Begay, of Prewitt; sisters Dena Begay, of Prewitt, Dedra Chapo, of Snowflake, Darriona Begay, of Prewitt, Asia Begay, of Prewitt, Faith Begay, of Prewitt, and Dasia Begay, of Prewitt; and grandparents Anna Platero, of Prewitt, Rodger Martinez, of Haystack, and Lorraine R. Boyd, of Prewitt. He was preceded in death by his grandfather Don Begay Sr.

Pallbearers will be Tyrone Platero, Michael Donald, Vince Chapo, Dwayne Begay Sr., Darren Begay and Donald Begay.

The family will receive relatives and friends at Baca Chapter House.

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