Ronnie Begay
Gallup, New Mexico
Funeral services for Ronnie Begay, 30, will be at 9 a.m. Saturday, September 27, at St. Francis of Assisi Parish. The Rev. Abel Olivas will officiate. Burial will be a t Naschitti Community Cemetery.
Begay died September 23, 2014, in Albuquerque. He was born May 7, 1984, in Gallup into the salt People Clan born for the Red Running into the Water People Clan.
Begay attended Gallup High School and was self-employed. He enjoyed landscaping, forestry, iron work, camping, fishing, cookouts, being with family and his children, watching movies and listening to music.
Survivors include his sons Juleon Begay fo Farmington and Luciano Begay of Gallup; daughters Loralei Ciccarello of Albuquerque; mother Julia Begay of Gallup; brother Tommy Begay of Gallup; and sisters Lynsey Halate, Theresa Halate and Reginia Begay, all of Gallup, Regina Yazzie of Jones Ranch, Renita Billie of Chicago and Retina Begay of Albuqueque. He was preceded in death by his grandparents Thomas H. Begay and Anita Begay; sister Julie Begay; brothers Virgil Begay, Jonah Yazzie and Lee Vern Roanhorse.
Pallbearers will be Uriah McCabe, Tommy Begay, Vernon Yazzie, Regis Benally, Roy Baca and Jonathan Roanhorse.
Cope Memorial Chapel of Gallup, NM is entrusted with arrangements.