Local Obituaries for Families in Santa Fe, Espanola, Taos, and Los Alamos, New Mexico
John C Gilmore
Feb 27, 2017
John C. Gilmore passed away on February 27, 2017. John was a cook at the Ghost Ranch Education and Retreat Center. A Memorial service will be held on Friday, March 10, 2017, 10:30 AM at the Agape Worship Center at Ghost Ranch, NM. John will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved him.
Peter Rommel
Feb 27, 2017
Peter Andrew Rommel was born on September 22, 1958 and tragically passed away on February 27, 2017 due to a heart condition. Peter is survived by: His two children, Caitlin and Dylan Rommel, their mother, Sara Betterton-Rommel, and Sara’s father, Robert Hensley His mother, Yolanda Rommel, his stepfather, Bob Rommel, and his biological father, Andy Musial. His...
Billy Sikes
Feb 26, 2017
A service will be on Friday, March 24, 2017 at 11:00am at the First Baptist Church in Santa Fe, NM. The burial will follow at 1:30pm at the Santa Fe National Cemetery.
Robert Nurock
Feb 26, 2017
Robert J. Nurock, a notable stock market analyst who was a panelist on the long-lived PBS series Wall Street Week, died on February 26, 2017 at his home in Santa Fe, NM. He was 79. As a stock market analyst, he created the Technical Market Index for Wall Street Week, where he was a panelist for 19 years until his...
Betty Peterson
Feb 26, 2017
Betty W. Peterson March 26, 1930- February 26, 2017 Betty Peterson, loving mother, sister, grand- and great- grandmother passed away peacefully surrounded by friends and family after a long illness. Betty was born on March 26, 1930 in Nocona, Texas and moved with her family to Los Alamos in 1944 to work on the Manhattan Project. Betty spent time between...
Barbara Lee Brown
Feb 25, 2017
Barbara Lee Brown September 7, 1942 – February 25, 2017 Barbara Lee Brown was born in Washington D.C. on September 7, 1942. She attended Woodrow Wilson High School, later graduating from George Washington University. Barbara married Eric Reuther of Washington D.C. After divorcing, she moved to Ibiza, Spain for the next ten years, then returning to the states and settling...
John Mcmillen
Feb 24, 2017
John "Mac" McMillen Mac had a hard outer shell as anyone who first met him would agree. Once you got past his shell he was a kind hearted generous soul who would never let you go without, and held you in his heart as family. Mac was a high school football star, a fisherman and the local mail man but...
Betty Hain Lewin
Feb 23, 2017
Betty Hain Lewin, Ph.D., of Santa Fe, NM, passed peacefully at home on February 23, 2017. Born in 1921 in New York, NY, to Harold and Bess Hain (founders of the Hain Pure Food Company), Betty lived in the Los Angeles area (Silver Lake and La Canada) until 1989, when she and her husband Howard moved to Santa Fe. Betty...
Connie Encinias
Feb 22, 2017
Connie Encinias, 96, peacefully passed away on February 22, 2017 surrounded by her loving family and wonderful caregivers. Connie was a long time Santa Fe resident. She was born in Rowe, NM to Amalia and Apolinar Encinias. She is survived by her sister Cruzita Archuleta also from Rowe, NM and numerous nieces and nephews. Connie was a long time member...
Luis Armando Reyes
Feb 22, 2017
Luis A. Reyes, Sr., passed away on February 22, 2017. He is preceded in death by his wife, Olivia Reyes, parents, Angel and Nicomedes Reyes, sisters, Carmen Reyes and Anna Boyle and brother, Pedro Reyes. He is survived by his children, Luis A. Reyes Jr. (Francine), Sandra Reyes (Geno), David Reyes (Brenda), Richard Reyes (Theresa), Angel Reyes (Deanna), 14 grandchildren,...
Arthur Thomas Noble
Feb 22, 2017
Well known and successful Taos artist, Arthur Thomas (Tom) Noble, III, 75, passed away unexpectedly at his home in El Prado, NM on February 22, 2017. Born on July 25, 1941 in Kansas City, MO to Arthur Thomas Noble, Jr. and Martha Jones Noble, Tom was a third generation Taoseno. After graduating from Taos High School, in 1959, he studied...
Max Lee Anderson
Feb 22, 2017
Max Lee Anderson passed away on February 22, 2017. Services are pending at this time and will be updated as soon as it becomes available.
Ruby Velarde
Feb 22, 2017
In loving memory of Ruby U. Velarde, went to be with our Lord on February 22, 2017. She is preceded in death by her parents, Maximino and Cornelia Sisweros, husband Isidro Velarde, daughter Loretta Valdivia, granddaughter Janet Chacon. She is survived by her children Linda and Armando Sanchez Jr., Karen and Albert Chacon, Gloria and Tom Mellow, Sandra and Gilbert...
Donna Magee
Feb 22, 2017
Donna Dean Magee was born in Portland, Oregon on October 15, 1942. She graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in Art and Journalism. She moved to Santa Fe in 1990 and was happy here for 27 years. She enjoyed the Opera, her PEO Sisters and her many good friends. She is survived by her two sisters Kathleen...
Tim Armijo
Feb 21, 2017
Tim M. Armijo Obituary Tim M Armijo left this world after a quick and sudden illness on February 21, 2017. He was an artist extraordinaire in ink, paint, pencil, encaustic, clay, wood, origami both traditional and his own designs. He loved our country and believed firmly in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He was not so much concerned...
Joseph "Ben" War Sr.
Feb 21, 2017
Joseph “BEN” War Sr. a resident of La Puebla, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 surrounded by his loving family at his side. Ben was a kind man with a big heart, his wife, children and grandchildren were his world, there was never a day he could be without his grandchildren. He is preceded in...
Adelita C Salazar
Feb 20, 2017
Adelita Cordova Salazar passed away peacefully on February 20, 2017. She was preceded in death by her parents Emilio and Josephita Cordova, her husband Ernest J. Salazar, sister Ersilia Tafoya, son Ernest Leroy Salazar, and grandson Tenanco Borrego. She was survived by her daughter, Debarri Gonzales and son-in-law Henry Gonzales, grandchildren, Carina Jaramillo, Evan Salazar, Anela "Nani" Flores, and Emilio...
Agnes Herrera
Feb 20, 2017
Agnes D. Herrera – 72; November 3, 1944 – February 20, 2017 Agnes D. Herrera of Santa Fe, NM was called to be with our Lord after a Lengthy illness. She is preceded in death by her parents Indalecio and Julia Duran of El Porviner, NM, her brother Gilbert Duran of Las Vegas, NM and her sister Rebecca Duran of...
Frank Baker
Feb 20, 2017
Frank E. Baker March 3, 1944--February 20, 2017 Frank E. Baker passed away at his home in Glorieta, New Mexico, surrounded by his family, on February 20 following a struggle with lung cancer. Frank was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Henry and Charlotte Thompson Baker. The family later moved to Palo Alto, California, where he grew up. After high school,...
Ruperta Trujillo
Feb 17, 2017
Ruperta Maria Trujillo, 101, of Upper Ranchitos passed away on February 17, 2017. She is preceded in death by husband, Bernardo, infant son, Johnny, sons, Fred, Manuel, Pat and David, mother, Celia Mares, stepfather, J.D. Mares, father, Lino Cisneros, sister, Rafelita Gonzales, brother, Vidal Cisneros, brother in-law, Claudio Gonzales and daughter in-law, Luz, 1 granddaughter and 4 grandsons. She is...
