Phillip Dayea Yazzie Sr

Phillip Yazzie
Tse De Tah Canyon

Services for Phillip Dayea Yazzie Sr., 84, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, September 29, 2015, at the Lupton Valley Community Church in Lupton, Arizona. The Rev. Ronnie Yazzie will officiate. Burial will be on a Family Plot. Viewing will be at 9-10 a.m. Tuesday, September 29, 2015, at the Lupton Valley Community Church.

Yazzie died September 24, 2015, in Gallup. He was born September 21, 1931, in Lupton, into the Black Sheep People Clan born for the Black Streak of the Forest People Clan.

Yazzie attended up to second grade in Wingate. He worked at Manuelito Chapter House as a carpenter, rancher and silversmith. Yazzie also worked with BNSF railroad and was active in community events. He participated in the rodeo as a steer wrestler and in horsemanship. Yazzie also participated in song and dance and sang with the Klagetoh Swingers and Navajo Nation Swingers.

Survivors include his sons Roy Dale, of Tse De Tah Canyon, Arthur Yazzie and Phillip D. Yazzie Jr., both of Phoenix, and Andrew Yazzie, of Wide Ruins, Arizona; daughters Louise Brown and Esther Urias, both of Tse De Tah Canyon, Beverly, of San Carlos, and Charlene A. Yazzie, of Allen Town, Arizona; brother Benjamin Boyd III, of Tse De Tah Canyon; sisters Helen Whitehorse, of Santa Monica, California, Cecilia Jim, of Tohatchi, and Bernice Whitefeather, of Tse De Tah Canyon; 26 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife Barbara Yazzie, sons Darryl Yazzie and Peter Yazzie, brother John Dayea, mother Emma Dayea, father Sam Dale and sister Lucinda Harvey.

The family will receive relatives and friends at the Phillip Dayea Yazzie Sr. residence in Tse De Tah Canyon after burial.

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