Grace Mae (Brown) Yazzie

Grace Yazzie
Tohlakai, NM

Funeral services for Grace Mae Yazzie, 83, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, October 18, 2014, at Cope Memorial Chapel. The Rev. Martin Eastridge will officiate. Burial will be in Tohlakai.

Yazzie died October 11, 2014, in Tohlakai. She was born April 13, 1931, in Tohlakai, into the Red Running into the Water People Clan born for the Salt People Clan.

Yazzie was a self-employed silversmith. She enjoyed sewing, selling at the flea market and playing with her grandchildren.

Survivors include her sons Antonio Yazzie and Wesley Chavez Yazzie; daughters Evelyn Duboise, Sylvia Yazzie and Nettie Yazzie; sister Dorothy Sneddy; 12 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Wesley Yazzie Sr; parents John and Nasbah Rena Brown; daughter Ada Mae Brown; and brothers Frank Brown, Archie Brown, Robert Brown, and Anderson Brown.

Pallbearers will be Marlon Ryan Yazzie Sr., Kyle Robert Yazzie, James Duboise Sr., Wesley Yazzie Fr., Lucas Bowman and Marcus Yazzie

The family will receive relatives and friends at Old Bahastl'ah Chapter House.

Cope Memorial Chapel of Gallup is entrusted with arrangements.