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Lillian M Becenti

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Lillian M Becenti

Birth
Death
27 Mar 2008 (aged 93)
Burial
Crownpoint, McKinley County, New Mexico, USA Add to Map
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CROWNPOINT  Services for Lillian M. Becenti, 93, will be at 10 a.m., today, April 1, 2008 at the Lighthouse Assembly of God in Crownpoint. Carlos Bakii will officiate. Burial will follow in Crownpoint Community Cemetery.


Becenti died March 27, 2008 in Crownpoint. She was born May 3, 1914 in Crownpoint into the Towering House People Clan for the Sleeping Rock People Clan.


She attended BIA Boarding School in Crownpoint and worked at Crownpoint IHS. She retired from IHS after working 45 years. Her hobbies included sheepherding, sewing, traveling and sharing the gospel.


Survivors include her daughters Dorothy B. Martin, Ruby B. Brown, Emma Jean Begay, Genevieve McDowell, Ora Begay, Sadie Tso and Valene Hovel; 32 grandchildren, 70 great-grandchildren and 14 great-great-grandchildren.


She was preceded in death by her husband Roy Becenti; son Stanley Becenti; daughter Annie E. Becenti; sisters Mary Scott, Glinny Negale, Bizilbah Begay; brothers Harry Johnson, Joe Manuelito.


Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements
CROWNPOINT  Services for Lillian M. Becenti, 93, will be at 10 a.m., today, April 1, 2008 at the Lighthouse Assembly of God in Crownpoint. Carlos Bakii will officiate. Burial will follow in Crownpoint Community Cemetery.


Becenti died March 27, 2008 in Crownpoint. She was born May 3, 1914 in Crownpoint into the Towering House People Clan for the Sleeping Rock People Clan.


She attended BIA Boarding School in Crownpoint and worked at Crownpoint IHS. She retired from IHS after working 45 years. Her hobbies included sheepherding, sewing, traveling and sharing the gospel.


Survivors include her daughters Dorothy B. Martin, Ruby B. Brown, Emma Jean Begay, Genevieve McDowell, Ora Begay, Sadie Tso and Valene Hovel; 32 grandchildren, 70 great-grandchildren and 14 great-great-grandchildren.


She was preceded in death by her husband Roy Becenti; son Stanley Becenti; daughter Annie E. Becenti; sisters Mary Scott, Glinny Negale, Bizilbah Begay; brothers Harry Johnson, Joe Manuelito.


Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangements

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  • Maintained by: Brenda
  • Originally Created by: JoyceS
  • Added: Apr 7, 2008
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25834685/lillian_m-becenti: accessed ), memorial page for Lillian M Becenti (3 May 1914–27 Mar 2008), Find a Grave Memorial ID 25834685, citing Crownpoint Cemetery, Crownpoint, McKinley County, New Mexico, USA; Maintained by Brenda (contributor 47361366).