Local Obituaries for Families in Safford, Arizona
Etha Alford
Oct 31, 2011
Etha Ruby Alford, 84, of Safford, entered into rest on October 31, 2011. She was born on March 8, 1927 to Lynn and Etha Thomas in Mina, New York. A memorial service will be held at 1pm on November 3, 2011 at the Sunset Hills Care and Rehab Center in Safford. All who knew Ruby are invited to attend. Ruby...
Marshall Riley
Oct 31, 2011
Marshall Lee Riley was born on May 21, 1979. He was born to Murphy Commanche of Whiteriver, Arizona and Sandra Pike Lupe of Bylas, AZ. Marshall entered into rest October 31, 2011 at the family home in San Carlos, Arizona. Marshall attended Whiteriver Headstart in 1984, was crowned Headstart Prince at that time. 1994 he graduated 8th grade at San...
Mickey Barker
Oct 26, 2011
Mickey Grace Barker of York Valley AZ died peacefully at home on Wednesday October 26th 2011. She was born in 1931 in Winthrop MA to Helen and Howard Johnson. She was happily married to Vernon Barker for 24 years. After his death in 1976 she achieved her Associates Degree in Accounting and became a longtime employee for the US Forest...
Longino Abeyta
Oct 26, 2011
Longino Serna Abeyta, 88, of Safford, entered into rest on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 in Safford. He was born on November 8, 1922 to Jesus and Damaris Abeyta, in San Jose, AZ. At the age of 15 he moved to California with his family. There he met and married Antonia Galvan. They were blessed with one child, Gloria, who passed...
James Mitchell
Oct 25, 2011
James E. Mitchell, 83, of Thatcher, entered into rest Tuesday, October 25, 2011. He was born on December 21, 1927 in Sweetwater, TX. James is preceded in death by his wife Ann Mitchell and his parents. He is survived by his sons Michael (Pam) of Odessa, TX; Stephen of San Diego, CA; Timothy of Charlotte, NC; and six grandchildren. There...
Audeen Rapier
Oct 25, 2011
Audeen Frank Rapier Audeen Rapier, 93, passed away October 25 in Mesa Arizona. She was born July 21, 1918 in Thatcher Arizona to George Frank and Anna Elzina Curtis Frank. She had a happy youth until her father passed away when she was eleven and lost her mother a year later. She was sent to live with relatives in Bisbee,...
Aaron Taylor
Oct 21, 2011
Aaron Carpenter Taylor, 48, of Tucson, passed away on Friday. He was born on March 4, 1963 in Bermuda to Marion L Taylor, and Ardell L Durell. He is survived by his wife Claudine Taylor of Tucson. Private family services will be held at a later date.
Leonard Eiler
Oct 21, 2011
Leonard H. Eiler, 88, of Safford, entered into eternal life, on Friday, October 21, 2011 in Safford. He was born on October 7, 1923 in Delphos, KS, to Bernard and Louise Eiler. He worked on the family farm growing up in Kansas. He met Marjorie Betts and they were married on November 30, 1949 in Kansas. To this union were...
Lydia Martin
Oct 17, 2011
Lydia Martin was born November 13, 1945, in Central, New Mexico to Andres and Aurora Madrid. Our beautiful wife, mom and nana entered into eternal rest October 17, 2011, with her loving husband by her side. Lydia spent her adolescent years in various parts of New Mexico before moving to Safford in 1967. She married Roy Wayne Martin on August...
Jim Saline
Oct 15, 2011
Jim B. Saline, 92, of Bloomfield, NM, passed away Saturday, October 15, 2011 at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington. Mr. Saline was born May 13, 1919 in Pima, Arizona the son of Albert Franklin Saline and Elda Zettie (Lamb) Saline. He was preceded in death by his wife Ruby Harrington Saline, son James Martin Saline, his parents, brothers...
Peggy Morton
Oct 13, 2011
Peggy Louise Morton was born December 31, 1945 and entered into eternal rest October 13th, 2011. She was born to Henry and Henrietta Cates in Richmond, California. In 1962 the family came to the Gila valley when she was 17. In 1964, she wed David Ray Morton and had 3 children, Becky, Debbie, and Chuck. Peggy had several jobs she...
Joseph Smith
Oct 12, 2011
Biography Joseph Joe Lloyd Smith, 80, of Pima, entered into rest on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at his home in Pima, surrounded by his loving family. He was born on March 19, 1931 in Perryville, Missouri, to Harvey Smith and Edith Mattingly. He married Edna Ann Fawcett on December 13, 1953 in Las Cruces, NM. Joe attended school in Missouri....
Delsa Jensen
Oct 12, 2011
Delsa Farnsworth Jensen, 92, of Virden, NM, passed away on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at her daughter's home in Virden, surrounded by her loving family. She was born on August 12, 1919 in the small mountaintop community of Colonia Garcia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Delsa was the 5th child of Byron Nephi Farnsworth and Maud Cluff. She was a self described Tom...
Nellie Lemaire
Oct 7, 2011
Nellie M. Lemaire, 91, of Safford passed away on Friday, October 7, 2011 in Safford. She was born on July 19, 1920 in Boston, MA, to John Durgin and Nellie May Place Durgin. She married Joel P. Lemaire on February 10, 1940 in Taunton, MA. Nellie graduated from Taunton High School, Cum Laude with a scholarship to college but chose...
Dylan Jones-Dawson
Oct 6, 2011
Send Flowers Dylan Jerome Jones-Dawson October 5, 2011 - October 6, 2011 Dylan Jerome Jones-Dawson, was born on Wednesday, October 5, 2011, in Mesa. Although there were complications, we were blessed with twelve precious hours, before he returned home. He is survived by his mother, Destiney Jones of Clifton; father, Aaron Dawson of Safford; grandmothers, Aime Jones of Clifton, and...
Thomas Smith
Oct 2, 2011
Thomas William Smith, 72, of Safford, passed away on Sunday, October 2, 2011 at the Sunset Care and Rehab, in Safford. He was born on January 20, 1939 in Dear Born, Michigan to Joel Thomas Smith and Lucille R. Ostrander. He married Bobbie Jean Lackey, on December 31, 1956 in Las Cruces, NM. They have been married for nearly 55...
Amelia Maldonado
Sep 30, 2011
Amelia Ruiz Maldonado, 79, of Thatcher, was born on March 22, 1932 in Morenci, Arizona. She passed away peacefully on Friday, September 30, 2011 at her home following a lengthy illness. She grew up and spent her adolescent years in Morenci. Amelia married Gabriel R. Maldonado in Morenci on February 20, 1949; upon this union they had one son, Gabriel...
Fortunata Ortega
Sep 27, 2011
Biography Our Eternal Creator welcomed Fortunata Andazola Ortega into his kingdom on September 27, 2011. Born on June 3, 1909 to a pioneer copper mining family, Pedro Andazola and Adeliada Orozco in Metcalf, Arizona Territory, Nana lived most of her life in the Clifton-Morenci-Metcalf area, and was a life-long member of Club Verde. She was preceded in death by husband...
Mitcheal Price
Sep 26, 2011
Mitcheal Odall Price, 84, of Thatcher Arizona passed away on Monday, September 26, 2011. He was born at home on June 18, 1927 in Pearce, Arizona to Augusta and Henry Price. Mitcheal grew up in Douglas, Arizona, and on October 22, 1945, at the age of eighteen, married Marcellene Beam in Lordsburg, New Mexico. They were soon blessed with two...
