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PECKUMN, CARL W. Age 87, a resident of Albuquerque. Carl passed away at home on Wednesday, December 12, 2012. Carl was born in Altus, Oklahoma on December 16, 1924. He was the oldest of seven children. He grew up in Del Norte, Colorado. Carl joined the Army in 1942 and he fought both in North Africa and Italy. He was honorably discharged in 1945 and went back to Del Norte, Colorado to live. Here he met Peggy and they were married in September 1946. They moved to Albuquerque, NM in 1951 where they raised their five children. He worked as an auto mechanic at various garages in Albuquerque until 1977. He then began his teaching career at the Technical Vocational Institute where he taught auto mechanics until he retired in 1985. He loved to go hunting, fishing and riding his motorcycle. Carl was a proud member of the 361st Infantry Association WWII and was serving as their President; he was also a member of the American Legion Post 49. He was director of the New Mexico Rangers for several years. Carl is survived by his wife Peggy, children, Michael Peckumn and wife Linda, Janice Adams and husband Dennis, Carol Smith and husband Paul, Judy Lackey and husband Ray, grandchildren, Ronny, Michelle, Tina, Kristy, April, Misty and great-grandkids, Anthony, Steven, Hunter, Hayden, Thomas, Corbin, Travis, Kameron and Seanna. Brothers, Delbert, Doil, Ralph and sister Gladyse. He was preceded in death by his son David, daughter Carla Sue, and granddaughter Carla Sue and his sisters Billie and Nell. Graveside services will be held at Fairview Memorial Park, 700 Yale Blvd. SE, Albuquerque, NM, Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 12:30 PM. Direct Funeral Services are in charge of arrangements.
Published on: Tue December 18, 2012
NAYLOR, HARRY WILKIN Age 90, died Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at Lovelace Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Sugar Tree Ridge, OH, son of Miriam and Roy Naylor, at the age of 20 he joined the Army. On his 21st birthday, he sailed beneath the Golden Gate Bridge on a troop ship headed to the war in the Pacific. After the war he married Win in Columbus, OH on August 10, 1947. He was a Funeral Director in Ohio and Arizona before moving his family to Albuquerque in 1968 where he was employed by Strong-Thorne Mortuary until he retired at the age of 80. Harry was an active member of Ridgecrest Christian Church (RCC). One of his life's joys was taking road trips visiting family and friends. Harry and Win traveled to nearly every state in the union. He was preceded in death by his brother; Donald Naylor of Hillsboro, OH and his sister; Dorothy Benson of Albuquerque, NM. Harry is survived by his wife of 65 years Winifred (Win), daughter; Debbie, son; Mark, four grandchildren; Sean, Tim (Megan), Colin, Bridget; two nephews; Linn Benson (Mona), Ken Naylor (Joyce) and niece; Sharon Workman (Larry). A Memorial Service will be held at Ridgecrest Christian Church, 5300 Eastern Ave. SE, Albuquerque, NM, on Monday, December 17, 2012 at 6:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Harry's name to, RCC at 5300 Eastern Ave. SE Albuquerque, NM 87108. To view information or leave a condolence please visit www.danielsfuneral.com Daniels Family Funeral Services 1100 Coal Ave SE Albuquerque, NM 87106 505-842-8800
Published on: Mon December 17, 2012
LUNA, JOE E. was born on September 21, 1939 in Albuquerque and passed away on Friday, December 14, 2012 at the age of 73. He is preceded in death by his parents, Albert and Rose Luna; daughters, Debbie Luna, Angela Luna; grandson, Robert Cloven; granddaughter, Virginia Cloven; sister, Frances Luna. Joe is survived by his son, Albert Luna; daughters, Julie Luna, Liz Cloven and husband Robert; brother, Henry Luna; sisters, Marcella Salazar and husband Chano, Nadine Briceno and husband Anthony. Services will be held at St. Therese Little Flower Catholic Church 300 Mildred Ave. NW. on Tuesday, December 18, 2012. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 9:00am with a viewing at 8:45am. Burial will follow at Mount Calvary Cemetery 1900 Edith Blvd. NE. Arrangements by Direct Funeral Services 2919 4th St. NW. 505-343-8008.
Published on: Mon December 17, 2012
ZAMORA, GENEVIEVE Age 89, little did we know God would call her name on December 15, 2012. It broke our hearts to lose our mother who was an inspiration to our life. As our mother left, she took a part of our heart. Our mother had a passion for life and an unconditional love for her four children, Marty Zamora, Jr., and his wife, Jessie, Diana C. Z. Matsumoto and husband, Neal of Monterey, CA, Elizabeth Armijo and her husband, Johnny and Richard Zamora and wife, Deborah. She was born on March 24, 1923 at 1823 S. Williams, San Jose, to her parents Simon and Nettie Barela. Our mother was a native of Albuquerque. She graduated from Albuquerque High School and retired from the Albuquerque School District. She loved her grandchildren Christina, Jennifer, April, Anthony, Taylor, Christopher, Michael, Laura, Marissa, David, Matthew and great grandchildren; Reginald, MyKayla and Davyn, and encouraged them to pursue their dreams. She was preceded in death by her beloved late husband, Martin A. Zamora, was a retired Sargeant of the Albuquerque Police Department, a Golden Glove Champion and a member of the Albuquerque Hall of Fame. A Rosary will be held Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 7:00pm at FRENCH- Wyoming. A mass of the resurrection will be held Thursday, December 20, 2012 at 10:00am at the Church of The Risen Savior, 7701 Wyoming Blvd. NE. Burial will follow at Calvary Cemetery. We will say goodbye to a beautiful, very giving and caring mother. The Lord has gained an angel. The family would like to thank the Presbyterian Hospice Healthcare for caring for our mother. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests donations to the Presbyterian Hospice Inpatient Unit, an organization dedicated in providing a quality end of life care. Donations should be made in memory of Genevieve Zamora. Donations may be made to Presbyterian Hospice Foundation, Attn: IPU, 8300 Constitution NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110. Please visit our online guestbook for Mrs. Zamora at www.FrenchFunerals.com FRENCH 7121 Wyoming Blvd. NE (505) 823-9400
Published on: Mon December 17, 2012
HOWE, DIANA HOLTERMAN (1935-2011) MEMORIAL Diana lost her fight with colon cancer on December 16, 2011 in Albuquerque, NM. She is buried with her late husband, Tommy Howe, in the Santa Fe National Cemetery. Diana was born in Espanola, NM on June 6,1935 to Leslie W. Holterman and Laura Wolf Holterman. She attended Santa Fe schools where she was active in band, choir, and chorus singing major parts in the schools musical productions. Diana graduated from Santa Fe High in 1953 and attended the University of New Mexico where, in 1957, she earned a degree in music education. She was then employed by the Bernalillo school system as a music teacher. Music, cats, plants and flowers were Diana's first loves. She is survived by one daughter and son-in-law with granddaughter, Danielle Culver, of Albuquerque and a loving sister, Joana Pickens and husband Jimmy of Abilene Texas.
Published on: Mon December 17, 2012
TIMMONS, MICHAEL EDWARD age 58, passed away peacefully on Friday, December 14, 2012 at home surrounded by his family. He was born Sept. 26, 1954 in El Paso, TX and resided in Albuquerque most of his life. Michael moved to Los Lunas, NM in 2005. He was an avid golfer, Dallas Cowboys fan and especially loved going to UNM football, basketball and volleyball games. He is survived by his daughter, Michelle Spear and husband Scott of Edgewood, NM, grandkids Megan and Jenna, brother Jerry Timmons and wife Linda of Albuquerque, brother Mark Timmons and wife Peggy of Austin, TX, sister Lynda Heaney and husband Henry of Lubbock, TX and numerous neices, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins. Michael was preceded in death by his mother Barbara Timmons in 2000 and father James Timmons in 2004. Memorial service will be held Monday, December 17, 2012 at 2 PM at Mountain Christian Church, 12242 Highway 14 N in Cedar Crest, NM. In lieu of flowers, please donate to UNM Lobo Club, National 4-H Council or The American Cancer Society.
Published on: Mon December 17, 2012
THRIFT, YVONNA CHILNESSIE was born in Simon, Oklahoma on August 17, 1924. She passed away peacefully at the age of 88 on November 27, 2012 in Mesquite, Texas. Her unusual name came from an Indian girl that Yvonna's mother had befriended and liked so much that she gave the same name to her daughter. Always one to give her own brand of nicknames to everyone she knew, Yvonna became known as "Y-vie", "Auntie Y", or just plain "Y" to many who loved her. In addition to her parents, George and Laurah McGonagill of Carlsbad, New Mexico; Yvonna was preceded in death by her husband of over 52 years, Raymond Thrift of Albuquerque, New Mexico; and by her brother, A.G. McGonagill of Carlsbad, New Mexico. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Ron and Kitty Thrift of Richardson, Texas; and by her daughter and son-in-law, Elayne and Dennis Snyder of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Grandchildren and their spouses are Stacey and David Warner of Liberty Hill, Texas; Jeffrey and Heather Thrift of Wylie, Texas; Autumn and Darin Wade of Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Julie Thrift of Richardson, Texas. Great-grandchildren are Katy and Dylan Warner; Cayden Thrift; and Hunter and Mackenzie Wade. Yvonna is also survived by her brother and his wife, George and Madeline McGonagill; and by her sister, Laura Meade, all of Carlsbad, New Mexico, as well as a host of nieces and nephews. Lifelong members of the Church of Christ, Yvonna and Raymond lived the majority of their marriage together in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and they were members of the Montgomery Boulevard congregation there. They were fortunate to have Harvey Porter as their minister and mentor for a number of years. Yvonna was devoted to her family above anything else, and she spent her life enjoying the satisfaction of loving her husband and teaching her children to love God, to be responsible citizens, and giving them the freedom and encouragement to "think big" and follow their dreams. When the grandchildren came along, they were just the icing on her family cake! Memorial contributions in Yvonna's name may be made to the Albuquerque Christian Children's Home, 5700 Winter Haven Road, NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87120.
Published on: Mon December 17, 2012
AYALA, GEORGE lifelong resident of Albuquerque, left to celebrate life with God on Dec. 12, 2012. George was a devoted husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. He is survived by his wife Martha; daughter Georgia Brown and husband Chris; son Gene Ayala and wife Diana; grandchildren Jamie Thompson and husband Steve, Erin Mason and husband Rob, Kristy Fashola and husband Fola, Justin Ayala and wife Shauna, adopted granddaughter Ariele Overton and husband Evan; great grandchildren Noah, Konner, Samaya, Izzy, Tosin and Avery. In Lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to St. Jude's Children's Hospital at HTTP://FUNDRAISING.STJUDE. ORG/GOTO/GAYALA
Published on: Sun December 16, 2012
PATE, MARY JOYCE COX died of complications after 13 years of Alzheimer's disease at Wooldridge Nursing Home in Corpus Christi, TX on December 7, 2012. She was born on May 19, 1922 to Wylie B Cox and Donnie Marriott Cox, at their home near Ponder, TX. She started to school when she was five because she could read better than her brother could after first grade, and she really wanted to go to school. She and her two brothers rode to school on their Shetland ponies because there were no school buses there at that time. From the time she was six, one of her morning chores was to make the biscuits for breakfast, while her dad and the boys saw to the stock and other outside chores. Her family moved to East Valley View Community, east of Portales, NM, and she received her high school diploma at Portales. That fall of 1939, she got a ride with one of her uncles to Denton, TX, when he was taking a truckload of fruit to sell, and she enrolled at North Texas Teachers College. She stayed with her widowed grandmother, who owned and cooked for a boarding house, because the college didn't have dorms at that time, and Mary served and bussed tables, washed dishes, and helped clean up for her room and board. She also worked at a variety store and babysat for a small amount of spending money. Her future husband, Virgil Pate, had long been a friend of her brothers, and she dated him a few times when she was going with the bunch of kids from Arch and East Valley View. They later started writing to each other, and after she finished her third year in college, they decided to elope to Gallup, NM, where he and many other underemployed men were finding good-paying jobs at Ft. Wingate. Their first home was a tent, and there were few amenities and lots of teasing from their relatives and friends. They moved back to Arch to farm a small acreage in partnership with Virgil's sister and her husband, but their crops didn't support two families very well, so they tried a small farm at Ft. Sumner, NM. Virgil was drafted into the Army shortly after, so Mary went back to Denton to see if she could finish her degree in Home Economics while the men were away at war. She stayed with her grandmother again, only now she had a toddler daughter, so the ladies babysat, too. As many wives did after WW II, she taught at Portales Junior High and sewed professionally to help him get his degree in Range Management and Animal Husbandry at Eastern New Mexico College and at New Mexico A&M. Some of his first jobs were at Arsenic Tubs on the San Carlos Indian Reservation; at Pima, AZ; at Capitan, NM; at Portales, NM; at Deming, NM; at Las Cruces, NM, and at Socorro, NM. She said she had moved more times than Barbara Bush: more than 36 moves in their married life. They were married more than 55 years before he died in 1996. After her children were all in school, she worked briefly at the Socorro El Defensor Chieftain newspaper, did volunteer work at the Socorro Presbyterian church, some substitute teaching, and then, in the early 1960s, she was offered the job of head dietitian at NMIMT, at which she excelled and really enjoyed. Her husband was transferred from his job as district manager of the BLM office to a new post in Canon City in 1968, and he decided to retire a few years later, so they moved back to New Mexico: first, to Albuquerque; then for about 10 years in Portales; and finally, in Jemez Springs. Mary Joyce was a loyal friend, a gentle teacher and advisor to her children and grandchildren, a loving relative to both her and her husband's families, a very capable and understanding partner to her husband, a generous hostess, and a woman who lived her faith. She longed for more educational and job opportunities for women, and for women to be more represented in our government. She loved music: from church hymns to 1970s pop, from classic western to classical orchestral works, to Lawrence Welk, and even to some of her children's 1950s and 1960s music. In her 70s, she was talked into whistling old hymns for her church's offertory music, in which she added many trills and bird calls to the songs. She was an excellent seamstress and tailor, from children's clothing and western-style shirts for the males in the family to fiesta dresses, suits, and elegant dresses for the women, from draperies and home decorating to bridal ensembles and evening dresses. She had a lifelong love for flowers and horticulture, caring for her own houseplants and landscaping, being a flower show judge at the county fairs and garden club events, and providing many hundreds of arrangements for church altars. Her cookbook and recipe collection were truly exceptional, and she was always interested in trying new cuisines, as well as new seasonings and produce, freezing, canning, pickling, making jerky and satisfying the family's sweet tooth. She was initiated into the Order of the Eastern Star in Socorro and served as Worthy Matron of that organization in Portales. She was a longtime member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the Portales chapter, and was an active member of the Portales Garden Club. She was an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church and also served as Clerk of Session in Portales. She is survived by her three children: Sherry Crane (husband Horris) of Albuquerque; Charley Pate (wife Susan) of Jemez Springs; and Dee Pate (wife Ellen) of Larkspur, CO; her sister Eula Ross of Corpus Christi; her brother Jim Cox of Jacksonville, FL. Her grandchildren are Bonnie Murray of Albuquerque; Carol O'Neal of Marian, OH; Jarod Pate of Englewood, CO; Derek Pate of Omaha, NE; and Jillian Pate of Denver and their families. Also surviving are her special friend of over 75 years, Leviatha Jones of Tatum; her brothers-in-law, M.O. Pate of Camp Verde, AZ and Verrell Pate of Lubbock; her sisters-in-law, Pauline Cox of Lubbock, Martha Cox of Jacksonville, Glenna Dawn Reeves of Midland, TX, and Marilyn Pate of Lubbock. She was preceded in death by her mother, her father, her two brothers, and her husband. Cremation was handled by Guardian Funeral Home in Corpus Christi. Remains will be interred in the Portales cemetery in mid January. To honor her life, if you know of a woman who is working to finish her education, and you can see a way to help her, please do it.
Published on: Sun December 16, 2012
SALAS, DOLORES The Family wishes to express their sincere gratitude to all relatives and friends who were so kind and supportive during this time. Your kindness will always be remembered. Those who wish to express their condolences may do so at www.danielsfuneral.com Daniels Family Funeral Services Alameda Mortuary 9420 Fourth St. NW Albuquerque, NM 87114 505-898-3160
Published on: Sun December 16, 2012
