Norma Lee Goldtooth

Norma Lee Goldtooth, age 83, passed away Wednesday evening, March 4, 2015 at the San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, New Mexico. Mrs. Goldtooth was a resident of Farmington for many years. She was born in Crystal, New Mexico under the maiden name Norma Bell Lee born into the Dibélzhíní (Black Sheep Clan), born for Dziltl'ahnii (Big Cove Clan).

Norma graduated from the Navajo Mission in Farmington, and earned her bachelor's degree from San Diego State in Microbiology during the mid 1950's. She earned her certification as a professional Medical Technologist, running medical and hospital laboratories from San Diego, California; Page, Arizona; Winslow, Arizona; Phoenix, Arizona; and Ganado Sage Memorial hospital on the Navajo Reservation. She was retired from the Navajo Nation after directing the Streptococcal Program of the Navajo Nation Division of Health Improvement Services and directing other health related programs for the Navajo Nation. She earned a Masters degree in Public Health Administration from Arizona State University. She loved dancing, attending rodeos and Navajo Nation celebrations.

Mrs. Goldtooth is survived by, son, Bruce "Tom" Goldtooth of Bemidji, Minn.; sisters, Myrtle Lincoln and Mirrriam Gescek; eight grandchildren; eighteen great grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren and many other extended relatives.

She was preceded in death by her father, Melvin E. Lee; her mother, Virginia P. Lee; brother Stanley Lee; another brother that died as a baby; and a granddaughter, Monica Goldtooth.
Services will be held at 1 p.m. at the Cope Memorial Chapel in Farmington, 404 West Arrington Street.

Burial will follow at services at the Kirtland-Fruitland Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Charles Goldtooth; Dallas Goldtooth; Migizi Pensonea; Vince Staples Graves; Albino Garcia, Jr.; and Anpao Duta Flying Earth.

Honorary pallbearers will be Byron Lester Goldtooth, Carl Nataani, Marshall Hinton, Matthew Shitima.