Recent Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Las Cruces, New Mexico & Surrounding Areas
Isabel M. Corrales
Dec 30, 2007
Isabel M. Corrales, 51 of Garfield, NM died Sunday, December 30, 2007 at Mountain View Regional Medical Center. She was born October 25, 1956 in Albuquerque, NM to Teodoro and Victoria Madrid. Isabel was a homemaker and a member of the Catholic Church. She is survived by her mother Victoria Madrid of Garfield, NM; one sister Marline Gutierrez and husband...
Manuel Blea
Dec 28, 2007
Manuel Blea, age 93 of Las Cruces, NM passed away Friday, December 28, 2007 at Memorial Medical Center. He was born September 17, 1914 in northern New Mexico to Barnabe and Rebecca Blea. He was raised in Peralta, NM and was also a former 30 year resident of T or C, NM. Mr. Blea had been an area resident for...
Esperanza T. Carrillo
Dec 27, 2007
Esperanza T. "Hope" Carrillo, 74, lifelong resident of Las Cruces died peacefully on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007. She was born Feb. 8, 1933 in Las Cruces to Santiago and Clara Trejo Maldonado. Hope had a passion for her grandchildren, but had a never-ending love for God. She will be deeply missed by all her family and friends who knew and...
Mary Carolyn Seybert
Dec 27, 2007
Mary Carolyn Seybert passed away December 27, 2007 at Mimbres Memorial Hospital surrounded by her loving family. Carolyn was born November 15, 1925 to Frank Almasi and Mary Welker Almasi in White Pigeon, Michigan. Carolyn was valedictorian of her high school graduating class and excelled in elocution and poetry writing. As a young girl she had a paper route and...
Maria Rel
Dec 26, 2007
Maria Rel, 102, of Las Cruces, NM has gone to heaven, Wednesday December 26, 2007. She was born in Rodey, NM on September 9, 1905 to Candido and Guadalupe Benavidez. Maria met and married her loving husband and they lived in Rodey, NM Hatch, NM Colorado, and California before settling down in Las Cruces, NM. She had 13 children of...
Emilia Fajardo
Dec 24, 2007
Emilia Fajardo, 89, of Hatch, NM died Monday, Dec. 24, 2007. She was born Nov. 25, 1918 in Hatch, NM to Daniel and Ramulda Benavidez Fajardo. Emilia spent her youth working and retirement years in Hatch at the family farm. She worked at the Hatch Variety Store and at the Hatch Mercantile until her retirement in 1984. She enjoyed baking...
Georgia Clayshulte
Dec 23, 2007
Georgia Clayshulte, 78, of Las Cruces, died Sunday December 23, 2007. Georgia was born December 31, 1928, to George and DeEtte Kenny, in Pocatello, Idaho. Georgia was well know as a kind and loving woman, devoting most of her time to working as a Registered Nurse for Mesilla Valley Hospice. She will be truly missed by all that knew and...
John Roy Roepke
Dec 22, 2007
John Roy Roepke, 81 passed away on December 22, 2007, after a valiant fight with cancer. John was born on October 6, 1926 to Louis and Vera Roepke in Waterloo, Iowa. He was active as a Boy Scout and a Sea Scout. After graduating from West Waterloo High School he enlisted in the US Navy in 1944. Following recruit training...
Dee Dee Karen Musgrove
Dec 22, 2007
Dee Karen Musgrove, 51, of Las Cruces died Saturday December 22, 2007, while vacationing in Cancun, Mexico. She was born in Alamogordo, NM December 23, 1955 to Michael and Amelia Musgrove. Dee Dee lived a large life full of grace and joy and love. Her family and friends describe her as a beautiful woman with a deep sense of spirit,...
Heidi L. Welch
Dec 22, 2007
Heidi Lynette Welch, 33, of Las Cruces, entered to eternal life on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007. She was born in Socorro, NM on Aug. 6, 1974 to Charlie Benjamin and Jeanne Martinez. Heidi was a loving mother, very thoughtful person, wonderful wife, daughter, sister, friend, niece and beautiful person altogether, was fondly called the ROCK for her ability to be...
Beatrice P. Lucero
Dec 21, 2007
Beatrice P. Lucero, Bea left us to be in Heaven with her mother "Anne" who was her best friend Friday December 21, 2007. Now mother and daughter are together again with their Father God in Heaven. Bea was a mother to her sister and brothers, and the most amazing Aunt and Godmother to her nieces and nephews. She was a...
Clarence C. Townsend
Dec 21, 2007
Clarence Curtin Townsend died Monday, December 17, 2007, which would have been his 27th wedding anniversary to his wife Juanita Marie Townsend. Internment will be held at 11:00 AM- Friday, December 21, 2007 at Grace Memorial Park in Hitchcock, Texas. Mr. Townsend was born in Weimar, Texas to Margaret Heyer and Clarence Curtin Geiselman on November 9, 1916. He was...
Natividad Guerra Diaz
Dec 21, 2007
Natividad (Nati) Guerrra Diaz, 76, of Las Cruces passed away suddenly on Friday December 21, 2007, she was surrounded by those who loved her. Nati was born December 25, 1930. She was the daughter of Apolonio and Patricia Guerra of La Mesa, NM. She met and married her husband, Isaac Diaz on June 6, 1948. Nati was loving, very simplistic...
Harold L. Wilkins
Dec 20, 2007
Harold L. Wilkins, 77, of Las Cruces passed away on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007 after a battle with cancer. He was born in Sydney, NE. He graduated from High School in Gering, NE. Harold was an outstanding high school athlete, holding many records in track and football. He moved to Las Cruces in 1956 working at WSMR for 30 years....
Walter Ray Davis
Dec 19, 2007
Retired Colonel Walter Ray Davis died December 19, 2007 after battling cancer. The son of Jennie Lois and Walter L. Davis, Walter Ray was born in Nashville, Tennessee on June 12, 1924. He attend the Sewanee Military Academy at the age of 13. He graduated in June of 1942, and was eligible as a graduate of the Junior ROTC Program...
Salome F. Garcia
Dec 19, 2007
Salome F. Garcia, 89, of Hatch died Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at Mountain View Regional Medical Center. She was born June 19, 1918 in Rodey, NM to Santa Cruz and Juana Fajardo Garcia. Salome was a homemaker and a member of the Catholic Church. She is survived by daughter, Elsie Garcia Romero and husband Robert of Hatch, NM; and son...
Isobel Thode
Dec 19, 2007
Isobel Thode, a resident of Good Samaritan Las Cruces Village, passed away at 3 p.m. December 19, at Memorial Medical Center. Isobel was born in Milwaukee, WI, on March 12, 1921 to Lena (Ferris) Zoeller and John Alois Zoeller. She spent her school years at the family home in Little Suamico, WI. She graduated from Oconto Falls High School in...








