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Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of Malcolm X, dies in Mexico at 28 May 10, 2013
She and her son moved from New York City to Philadelphia to Los Angeles to Minneapolis to San Antonio, often living in rundown ... According to a 1997 article in The Washington Post, by the time he was 5, Malcolm Shabazz would address bus ... (Washington Post)

Mummified body of NM woman found last week was Chicana author, activist and teacher May 13, 2013
She gave up teaching to write full time in 1983. She was the author of “Los Tres Cerdos: Nacho, Tito and Miguel” — her version of “The Three Little Pigs.” In the book, the third pig, Miguel, builds a home-made of adobe bricks. (Washington Post)

Maida Garcia May 06, 2013
Maida Garcia, loving wife, mother and grandmother died on April 27, 2013 at home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Maida was born on July 10, 1922 in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Her peaceful passing followed a lengthy battle against vascular dementia at the home of ... (The Taos News)

James Booth, 83, of Santa Fe dies May 07, 2013
SANTA Fe – Services for James Abram Booth ... Cory Pollock of Laddonia, Luke Booth of St. Louis, Emma and Logan Booth, both of New Bloomfield; five great grandchildren, Eveline, Isaiah, Polly, and Violet Olivas of Monroe City, and Wade ... (Mexico Ledger)

Today's obituaries: Beverly J. Polczak was a first grade teacher at Palermo Elementary 31 years May 13, 2013
Beverly J. (Thomson) Polczak, 85, of Mexico, died Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at St. Luke Health Facility in Oswego. She graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in education from Oneonta State College in 1949. She taught first grade in the Mexico school ... (Syracuse Post-Standard)

Obituary: Dorothy Meckem 1925 - 2013 May 11, 2013
Dorothy was born August 21, 1925 in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. Dorothy’s parents moved to Arizona when she was young and Dorothy graduated from Mingus Union High School in Cottonwood, Arizona she then worked at the Soda Springs Dude Ranch in Rimrock ... (verdenews)

Billy Cearley, 83, of Perry dies May 13, 2013
"Babe" (Bowman) Cearley. On May 3, 1951 he married Billie M. Sharp at the Christian Church in Perry. He enlisted in the Missouri National Guard in June, 1950 and went to work for them full time in May, 1956, retiring on Dec. 31, 1990. He was a ... (Mexico Ledger)

Beverly J. Polczak May 13, 2013
She was involved in the Miss America Scholarship Pageant and was the traveling companion to Miss New York State and Miss Oswego County. She was predeceased by her husband, Theodore Polczak, who died in 2012; a daughter, Peggy Anne, who died in ... (Palladium-Times)

Obituary: Joanne Redak Lyon May 04, 2013
Joanne was born January 7, 1931 in Pueblo, CO as was her mother, Rita Fist Redak ... She bred and showed schnauzers and boxers. She was a real estate agent for Eugene D Brown and later took a job as Director of Development for Kansas City Public Television ... (Aspen Times)

Ilse Spemann Woerndle May 06, 2013
Ilse passed away at 10:10 p.m. on May 1, 2013 at Holy Cross Hospital in Taos ... buying vending-machine sandwiches and train tickets to Denver, CO., where they were met by friends from Aspen, Colorado who had immigrated some years earlier. (The Taos News)
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