Recent Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Las Cruces, New Mexico & Surrounding Areas
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...
Lorenza Castillo
Nov 24, 2020
Lorenza T. Castillo, 96 years old, went to be with the Lord on November 24, 2020 at Memorial Medical Center. A lifelong resident of Salem, NM, Lorenza (Lorraine) had spent the last several years being cared for by her son Danny and daughter-in-law Saundra at their home in Las Cruces. Lorensita Torrez was born in Garfield, NM on October 11,...
Maria Luisa 'Mary Lou' Benavidez
Nov 24, 2020
Our beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother Maria Luisa (Mary Lou) Benavidez, 81 passed into the presence of our Lord Jesus on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at Mt. View Regional Medical Center. She was born March 3, 1939 in Mesquite, New Mexico to Jose Silva(deceased) and Francisca Montes Silva(deceased). Mary Lou was a member of the Roman Catholic Church. She was...
Pete Manterola
Nov 23, 2020
IN LOVING MEMORY It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved father, brother, uncle, grandfather and lifelong resident of Las Cruces, PETER ISMAEL MANTEROLA, age 80 on November 23, 2020 after a long battle with diabetes. He was born in Las Cruces to Arnulfo and Emilia Manterola, on June 3, 1940 and...
Olegario M Campos
Nov 23, 2020
It is with heavy heart's that we announce the passing of our beloved father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother, and friend. Olegario M. Campos Age 95 entered eternal life on Monday November 23, 2020. He was born on March 6, 1925 in San Francisco de Borja, Chihuahua Mexico to Erasmo and Teresa Campos. He came to the United States in the...
Jesus Lucero
Nov 22, 2020
Jesus "Jesse" Alvarez Lucero passed away on Sunday November 22nd, 2020 at his home, with his family by his side. On June the 7th of 1949, Jesse was born to Francisca Alvarez Lucero and Jose Bernal Lucero. His maternal grandmother, Aleja Rios Alvarez, a comadrona/midwife, delivered him at her home in Placitas New Mexico. He grew up in Alamogordo and...
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