Local Obituaries for Families in Safford, Arizona
Paul Graham
Feb 25, 2011
Paul Elwood Graham, 81 of Safford passed away February 25, 2011 at the Mt. Graham Regional Medical Center. Paul was born October 18, 1929 in Leominster, Massachusetts and graduated from Leominster High School. He served in the Massachusetts National Guard and was a gifted mechanic specializing in front ends. Paul was an artist and published poet. He enjoyed working on...
Patricia Grant
Feb 24, 2011
Patricia Rae Grant, 70, of Safford, passed away on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at Sunset Hills, in Safford. She was born on April 5, 1940 in Safford, to Ray Hampton Stuermer and Patsy Ruth Merrill. Patti attended school in Safford and graduated from Safford High School in 1958. She then moved to Phoenix and then to Atlanta. She returned to...
Jesus Casillas
Feb 24, 2011
Biography Jesus Manuel Casillas,64, of York Valley, entered into rest on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at his home in York. He was born on January 20, 1947, in Ascension, Mexico, to Ernesto Casillas and Guadalupe Sodari. His early years were spent in Mexico. After coming to Arizona he started working in Eagle Creek as a cowboy. After an accident on...
Gordon Hoopes
Feb 23, 2011
Gordon L. Hoopes, 91 of Safford passed away at his home on February 23, 2011. He was born May 5, 1919 in Miami, Arizona to Roy and Maude Sowell Hoopes. Gordon attended school and graduated from Safford High School. After graduation, he attended the New Mexico Military Institute and the University of Arizona. It was at the U of A...
Karen Amolsch
Feb 20, 2011
Karen Ileen Amolsch, 56, of Safford, passed away on Sunday, February 20, 2011 in Safford. Services are pending.
Max Peck
Feb 19, 2011
Marion Max Peck, 74, of Thatcher, Arizona, passed away surrounded by family, Saturday, February 19, 2011, at Tucson Medical Center. He was born on August 3, 1936 in Pima, Arizona to Lavon N. and Hazel Belle Taylor Peck. He graduated from Pima High School in 1954. He earned an A.A. Degree from Eastern Arizona College in 1956 and attended Arizona...
Ella Robinson
Feb 17, 2011
Funeral Services will be conducted Monday, February 21, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. in the Solomonville Ward LDS Chapel with viewing one hour prior to services. Interment will follow in the Thatcher Cemetery. Ella Mae Hancock Robinson, 80, passed away Thursday, February 17, 2011, at the home of her daughter Pattys, in Mapleton, UT. Ella Mae was born April 23, 1930,...
Derek Garcia
Feb 15, 2011
Derek Troy Garcia, 22 of Safford passed away on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at his home in Safford. He was born on April 21, 1988 in Safford. Derek is survived by his mother, Charlotte Hansen of Safford, parents, Mariano (Rebecca) Casillas, Sr. of Safford, and Steve and Kim Garcia of Safford; girlfriend, Daniela Arbizo of Safford; son, Carlos Arbizo, of...
Ilga Esparza
Feb 13, 2011
Ilga Esparza, 88, passed away February 13, 2011 in Tucson, Arizona. Mrs. Esparza was born January 6, 1923 in Riga, Latvia to Otilija and Edvards Felzens. She lived in Riga until 1944 when the Soviet Occupation displaced her and her mother to Nuremberg, Germany. Based on her secretarial skills and knowledge of English, she was employed by the United States...
Marcelina Romero
Feb 12, 2011
Biography Marcelina Cervantez Romero of Clifton, Arizona was born June 2, 1916 in San Jose, Arizona and passed away peacefully at home February 12, 2011. She was married to Salvador Romero (who preceded her in death in 1985) for over fifty years and they had two children, Roger C. Romero and Patricia Romero Fowler. Her grandchildren include Roger A. Romero,...
Brian Mitchell
Feb 10, 2011
Brian Mitchell, 36 of Safford passed away at his home on February 10, 2011. Funeral Services are pending.
Brenda Benitez
Feb 10, 2011
Biography Brenda Joyce Benitez, 50 , of Pima, passed away after a long courageous battle with cancer on Thursday, February 10, 2011 at Mt. Graham Regional Medical Center. She was born on December 31, 1960 in Safford to Douglas David Hawkins and Edith Jean Foster. She married Bobby Joe Benitez on December 19, 1987 in Morenci, AZ. Brenda was a...
Chad Randell
Feb 8, 2011
Chad Raymond Randell, 29 of Sierra Vista passed away February 8, 2011 in Tucson. He was born August 16, 1981 in Morenci and attended Morenci Elementary, Mary Naylor & Cross Middle School in Tucson, La Plata Jr. High in Silver City and graduated from Silver City High School. Chad enjoyed music and was a gifted singer, songwriter and guitarist. He...
Charles Humphrey
Feb 3, 2011
Charles A. Humphrey, 86 of Pima passed away at his home on February 3, 2011. He was born March 10, 1924 in Hollis, Arkansas. Charles served in the US Marines was honorable discharged in 1946. He married Ethel Mae Ward after he returned home from the service and moved to Morenci, where they raised their three children. They then moved...
Lillian Bolinger
Jan 29, 2011
Lillian J. Bolinger, 86 of Pima passed away at the Sunset Hills Care Center surrounded by her loving family in the early morning hours of January 29, 2011. She is survived by her daughter Dixie Warmington and son Bob Bolinger. She was preceded in death by her husband Bud Bolinger. Funeral Services will be conducted 10:00 a.m., Thursday, February 3,...
Janet Fox
Jan 24, 2011
Janet Gail Fox, 57, was born July 15, 1953 in Safford, AZ, daughter of Charles T. and Terry F. Fox. Janet passed away January 24, 2011 at her brothers home in Central, AZ. Surviving are a daughter Andrea Lee Hobbs and son William Camron Ritchey, brother Charles E. Fox and sister Terry Lynn Fox. Janet was a loving mother, sister...
Helen Sonive
Jan 20, 2011
Helen Franco Sonive, 73 of Safford passed away January 20, 2011. She was born in Thatcher and graduated from Safford High School. Helen married Tony Sonive right out of High School and the couple moved to California where Tony was stationed. Their home was always open to visiting family from the Gila Valley and enjoyed taking the family to Disneyland...
Joe Lockwood
Jan 18, 2011
Biography Joseph R. Lockwood, 87 passed away January 18, 2011 in Ridgefield, Washington. Joe was born December 23, 1923 in Payson, Arizona to Roy and Sarah Lockwood. Joe graduated from Globe High School and served in the Army during World War II. He married the love of his life, Doris Babe, in Reserve, New Mexico on June 9, 1944. The...
Gwen Ellison
Jan 16, 2011
Gwen Ellison, 79 of Pima passed away with her family at her side on January 16, 2011 in the Mt. Graham Regional Medical Center. She was born April 15, 1931 in Dover, Ohio. Gwen worked in the Medical industry as a nurse practitioner. She was very creative and talented and taught herself how to do many things. Gwen was also...
George Hamilton
Jan 13, 2011
George Allen Hamilton, 84, of Thatcher, entered into rest on Thursday, January 13, 2011 at the Mt. Graham Regional Medical Center. He was born on November 9, 1925 in Derby, Iowa, to John L. Hamilton and Maude Nickalous. He married Marjorie Monzingo in January 1996. George grew up in Iowa; he was the baby of ten children. He joined the...
