FELIX NATANI BEGAY Jr

Funeral services for Felix N. Begay Jr., 53, will be at 10 a.m. Monday, July 28, 2014, at Cope Memorial Chapel, Gallup NM. Raymond Nez will officiate. Burial will be in Coyote Canyon, NM, family cemetery.

Begay died July 14, 2014, in Denver, Co. He was born April 26, 1961, in Ft. Defiance, AZ, into the Black Streak Wood People Clan born into Coyote Pass Jemez Clan.

Begay attended Holbrook S.D.A. Indian School in Holbrook, AZ, and Kirtland High School, in Kirtland, NM. His hobbies included photography and fishing.

Survivors include his son Faron Begay of Farmington, NM; daughter Riana Scott of Bedford, PA; brothers Lemuel N Begay of Ojo, Amarillo, NM and Grafton N. Begay of Ojo, Amarillo, NM; sisters Felistine Begay of Ojo Amarillo, NM, Felita Natoni of Farmington, NM, Brenda Thompson, of Kirtland, NM, and Felicita Natoni of Ojo Amarillo, NM, and two grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents Felix N. Begay Sr., of Toadlena, NM, and Annie Rose Begay of Coyote Canyon, NM; grandparents Guy and Jeanette Shipley of Coyote Canyon, NM and John Sr. and Sarah Begay of Toadlena, NM; and sisters Debra Keeswood and Felicia Begay.

Pallbearers will be Felicia Moreno, Jeanette Begay, Erickson Matchers, Dylan Begay, Stanling Coolidge, Girard Begay, Danny Shipley and Gary Willie.

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