Recent Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Las Cruces, New Mexico & Surrounding Areas
Maryann Kratzke
Dec 9, 2020
On Wednesday Dec. 9th, 2020 Maryann Kratzke passed away in her sleep at home just one month shy of a milestone 102nd birthday. Maryann was born on January 10, 1919 in Braddock, PA. She and her late husband, Ted, retired to Las Cruces in 1983 from Roslyn, PA. She was a member of the Munson Senior Center. She was a...
Ronnie Benavidez
Dec 8, 2020
Ronnie Toms Benavidez, 33, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, died Tuesday, December 8, 2020. Ronnie was born April 8th, 1988, in San Antonio, Tx, to Dolores Lopez and Rolando Benavidez. Ronnie was the youngest of three boys and quickly learned the value of family. He was a hardworking man with a heart of gold. He had a smile that could...
Katherine Sue Parish
Dec 7, 2020
Katherine Sue Parish, Davis, nee Smith a.k.a. "Aunt Kay" or "Kathe", passed away peacefully of natural causes in her home of Las Cruces, New Mexico on December 7, 2020. She was 85 years old. Katherine was born March 14, 1935 in the village of Hatch, New Mexico to Thomas Willard Sr. and Thelma Smith, and was the second of five...
Justin Lindsey
Dec 6, 2020
It is with tremendous sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved Justin. Justin joined our heavenly father on December 5, 2020 after fighting a six month battle with Leukemia. Justin Nocona Lindsey was born on December 10, 1975 to JT and Freida Lindsey. He is survived by his loving wife Cindy and his beloved son...
Ralph "Bud" Hettinga
Dec 5, 2020
It is with profound sadness and heavy heart that we announce the passing of Bud (Ralph Martin) Hettinga. Bud joined our heavenly father on Saturday, December 5th, 2020 after a long hospital confinement. Bud is preceded in death by his parents Mildred Hettinga of Frese Roswell, NM and Ralph Hettinga of Hillsboro, NM and his brother, Thomas Hettinga of Las...
Daisy Aileen Burkett
Dec 5, 2020
Daisy Aileene Wiley Burkett was born to James Alexander Wiley and Daisy Winfield Grim in Castle Rock, Colorado on November 16th, 1917, and died on December 5th, 2020, in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She married Reinhold Erwin Burkett, of New Braunfels, Texas, a pilot, and career Air Force officer, in Reno, Nevada, February 7th, 1942. Aileene is survived by one...
Norma Tacquard
Dec 5, 2020
Norma Ruth Tacquard, 87, of Las Cruces passed away December 5, 2020, at the Village at Northrise. She was born to James Clonnie and Fern Elna Cullins, January 13, 1933, in Englewood, Kansas. She was the eldest of two children with her brother, J.C., preceding her in death. Norma graduated from Sidney High School in Sidney, Nebraska, in 1951. She...
Dorothy Benz
Dec 3, 2020
Dorothy Portillo-Benz was delivered to God on December 3, 2020, at the age of 64 from Mountain View Regional Medical Center. Dorothy was born on January 11, 1953, in Santa Rita, New Mexico to Anita Chacon and Manuel Portillo and had four siblings. Her brother, Ruben Portillo, and three sisters, Linda Maldonado, Irene Maynor, Emilia (Milly) Garcia; and sister-cousin Rosalie...
Mary Aylor
Dec 3, 2020
Mary Alice Ross Aylor was born on July 14, 1921, near McKenzie, TN where she attended high school and Bethel College. Later she was a student at the City Business College in Columbus, GA, the University of Tennessee in Memphis and the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. She was a graduate of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM....
Fortunato Sanchez Gonzalez
Dec 3, 2020
Fortunato (Nato) Gonzalez Jr, 70 of Las Cruces, New Mexico passed away on December 3, 2020 in Las Cruces, NM. Born on June 2, 1950 in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico to Fortunato Gonzalez Sr. and Consuelo Gonzalez, he migrated at a young age with his parents and siblings to the United States. Nato attended Las Cruces High School and later followed...
Lily Lujan
Dec 1, 2020
Maria Lillia "Lily" Lujn, 83, of Mesquite, NM was called to eternal rest on Tuesday morning December 1, 2020 at Memorial Medical Center. Lily was born on January 12, 1937 in La Mesa, NM to Victor and Librada Bustamante. Lily was an enduring community servant. In her early adult life, she worked as a driver's education instructor, census taker, and...
Lola Moya
Nov 30, 2020
Lola Sedillo Moya, 99, peacefully passed away in her home on Monday, November 30, 2020. Lola was born May 4, 1921, in Monticello, New Mexico, to Jose M. and Teresa Montoya Sedillo. She is survived by four sons, Frank L. (Erni), Steve (Sally), Joey (Cynthia) and Billy (Linda), her most cherished sister and friend Susie Davis of Las Cruces, and...
Joseph Valles
Nov 29, 2020
Joseph Valles left this Earth to be with the Lord on November 29, 2020, in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was 28 years old. Joseph was born on November 20, 1993 in Laughton, Oklahoma. As a child, he was full of curiosity and was always running around and playing with his brother and sister. As he got older, his intelligence...
Jon Carson Benz
Nov 29, 2020
Jon Carson Benz was delivered to God on November 29, 2020, at the age of 74 from Mountain View Regional Medical Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Jon was born on July 24, 1948, in Turlock, California to Betty Inman and Jack Benz and had nine siblings. His surviving siblings are Sandy Williams of Manteca, CA, Roger Benz of Rio...
Harold Arthur Uttley Jr.
Nov 28, 2020
Col. (Ret.) Harold (Hal) Arthur Uttley, Jr, 86, passed away on November 28,2020, after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. Hal was born on July 31, 1934, in New Bedford, Massachusetts to Harold Arthur and Albina Pich Uttley. He attended the New Hampton Preparatory School in New Hampshire for high school and during the summers, helped run the family ice...
Lewanna Howard Pippen
Nov 27, 2020
Lewanna Howard Pippen passed away on November 27, 2020 at the Arbors (Vista Living) due to Dementia and COPD. Lewanna was born August 24, 1941 in Borger, Texs. In 1956, Lewanna's parents moved to Eunice, New Mexico where she graduated from Eunice High School in 1959. She continued her education by earning a BS in Education from Eastern New Mexico...
Enedina De La Cruz
Nov 26, 2020
Enedina de la Cruz, 83, of Las Cruces, NM died Thursday November 26, 2020. Enedina was born August 29, 1937, to Emigdio Gonzalez and Manuela Arvizo in Matachic, Chihuahua, Mexico. Enedina was a loving and caring wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She is survived by her children: three sons Jaime Jr. (Patricia) of El Paso, Tx; Julian of El Paso,...
Charles Hugh Wilson
Nov 26, 2020
Charles "Chuck" Hugh Wilson, 78, of Las Cruces, NM, passed away on November 26th, 2020 in Las Cruces, NM. Chuck went to the hospital for back pain that never improved - the fractures found in his bones are thought to have been caused by cancer. Chuck was born in Roswell, NM on April 16th, 1942 to Joseph Adolph and Grace...
Leland Richard Himes
Nov 25, 2020
Leland Richard Himes Leland Richard Himes, "Jack," passed away peacefully in his sleep at La Posada Hospice, on November 25, 2020 in Las Cruces, NM, at the age of 92. Jack is survived by his biological son, Richard Von Wolff and daughter-in-law, Terri Von Wolff of Las Cruces, NM, grandchildren, Alexandra Von Wolff (husband Leland Webb) of Tokyo, Japan and...
Mary Eleen Mcmullan
Nov 25, 2020
Our family-appointed Queen, Mary Budagher McMullan, was called Home at age 91 by her husband James Jay McMullan, her two sisters, Rose Morris and Emma Hindi, three brothers, George, Johnny, and Saith, and four children Coeen, James, Barbara, and Beverly, on November 25, 2020. Mary began her life in Budagher's, New Mexico on June 3,1929, at "the Ranch'' to Sallie...
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