Ellen Mae Brown
Gallup, NM
May 31, 1956-March 23, 2013
Funeral services for Ellen Mae Brown, 56, will be at 1 p.m. Friday, March 29, 2013, at Cope Memorial in Gallup. Joe Yazzie Fr. will officiate. Burial will be in Gallup City Cemetery.
Brown died March 23, 2013, in Albuquerque. She was born May 31, 1956, in Gallup into the Bitter Water People Clan for the Salt People Clan.
Brown attended Fort Wingate High School and was employed at Bishop Optical.
Survivors include her husband Ernest Brown, of Gallup; daughters Tina Yazzie, of Gallup, and Stephanie K. Brown, of Gallup; parents Johnny Jack and Helen Yazzie, of China Springs; sisters LaVerne Whitegoat, Betty Mae Jack, Phyllis Lee, Suelyn Morgan and Irene Hoskie; and two grandchildren. She was preceded in death by Richard H. Yazzie, Helen Jack and Johnny Jack.
Pallbearers will be Jason Morgan, Jeffery Morgan, Jon-Davis Morgan, Jimmie R. Kee Jr., Dennison Hoskie and DeWayne Tsinnijinnie.
The family will receive relatives and friends at Rock Springs Chapter House.
Cope Memorial of Gallup is entrusted with the arrangements.
Service Details
Friday, March 29th, 2013 12:00pm, Cope Memorial Chapel Gallup
Interment Details
Gallup City Cemetery