AMALIA C. ALARID, 89, of Santa Fe died Saturday, Aug. 20, 2005.
She was a beloved mother and grandmother.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Francisco Cordero and Juanita Ortiz-Leyba; husband, Octaviano Alarid; brother, Benny Leyba; and sisters, Lala Ortega and Teresita Gurule.
She is survived by her children, Stella Webb, Juan, Frank and Andres Alarid;, six grandchildren; and many other relatives.
A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. today at Cristo Rey Catholic Church.
Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. at the same church with burial to follow at 11:30 a.m. at the Santa Fe National Cemetery.
Berardinelli Family Funeral Service, 984-8600.
Dated: August 23, 2005
ROJELIO "ROGER" CARRILLO, 68, of Pojoaque died Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005, after a short illness.
He was raised in Las Vegas, N.M., and was a 33-year resident of Pojoaque. He served 27 years between the U.S. Army, Navy and National Guard, and worked with Qwest for 33 years. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and El Sagrado Corazon, and volunteered to help at the parish Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Valle de Pojoaque.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Jose and Josefina Carrillo; sister, Chefina; and son, Roger Carrillo Jr.
He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Betty Carrillo; children, Henrietta and husband Irven, Viola and husband David, Becky, Jacob and companion Jill; nine grandchildren; and many other relatives and friends.
A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. today at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Pojoaque.
Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the same church with burial to follow at the Santa Fe National Cemetery in Santa Fe.
DeVargas Funeral Home of the Española Valley, 747-7477.
Dated: August 23, 2005
EMILIA G. FRESQUEZ, 79, of Ranchos de Taos died Friday, Aug. 19, 2005.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Carlos and Isabel Garcia; and son, Robert Anthony Fresquez.
She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Manuel A. Fresquez; children, Alex Fresquez (Elidia), Mary P. Roybal (Melvin Trujillo), Henry Fresquez (Anna Espinoza), Joe Fresquez, Ruby Luna (Anthony), Reyes Roybal (Karen Garcia), all of Ranchos de Taos; brother, Carlos Garcia, Jr. (Claudina), eight grandchildren; and many other relatives.
Services have taken place at San Francisco de Asis in Ranchos with burial at Jesus Nazareno Cemetery in Ranchos de Taos.
Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, 758-3841.
Dated: August 23, 2005
JOSEPHINE "JOSIE" GRIEGO-BACA of Santa Fe died Monday, Aug. 22, 2005, of cancer.
She was a native and lifelong resident of Santa Fe.
Berardinelli Family Funeral Service, 984-8600.
Dated: August 23, 2005
BERNIE M. TRUJILLO, 92, of Chimayó died Saturday, Aug. 20, 2005, after a brief illness.
She was a member of the Altar Society of Sagrada Familia de Nuestra Señora del Carmel. She was an active member of the Holy Family Church in Chimayó. She was a loving mother, grandmother, and friend.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Onesimo "Moose" Trujillo Sr.; son, Onesimo "Moosito" Trujillo Jr.; mother, Petronila Montoya; father, Flavio Montoya; sister, Ernestina Salazar; and brother, Bennie Montoya.
She is survived by her daughter, Christina L. Trujillo of Santa Fe; one grandson; sisters, Eliza Rivera of Pojoaque, Pita Trujillo of Albuquerque, Flora Montoya of San Pedro, Bertha Lucero and husband Tony of Española, Ruby Sanders of Albuquerque; brother, Armando Montoya of La Mesilla; and many other relatives and friends.
Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. today at the Holy Family Church in Chimayó with burial to follow at the Nuestra Señora del Carmel in Chimayó.
DeVargas Funeral Home of the Española Valley, (877) 747-3600.
Dated: August 23, 2005
Edmund Thomas Curda, a journalist turned Benedictine Monk, died Sunday as a result of head injuries.
He had been picking acorns off a tree from the roof of Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey in Pecos, where he was a brother, according to Father Bob Lussier. An avid hunter, nature-lover and gardener, Curda lost his balance or slipped coming back in from the roof and fell down the stairs, eventually succumbing to head injuries four days later, Lussier said.
Curda decided to become a monk because he thought the monastic life would provide the truth Curda hadn't found as an editor and journalist, Lussier said.
"Ed was brought up in a very spiritual family, and being a newspaper person, he was dealing with searching for the truth. He found it was impossible to do in the newspaper industry, and he realized there had to be a better way to continue to search for that," he said.
In 1975, after serving four years in army intelligence including tours in South Korea and Vietnam, Curda took a job with the Telegram in Temple, Texas. After earning a master's degree in journalism in 1977, he moved to the El Paso Times, where he covered the city and politics beats.
In 1984 he made a retreat to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Pecos, where he decided to become a monk.
"He was always searching for something," said his older brother, Jerry Curda. "He was an avid hunter and he took his camera and took some beautiful pictures on those trips. You meet God face to face in the mountains where all of that beauty is."
Jerry said his brother was impressed with the community and the love that he found in Pecos, and had become disillusioned with the media and the newspaper business. Jerry remembered a number of instances where articles Ed was working on had been shot down by his editors because they reflected badly on businesses that paid advertising dollars to the newspaper.
In recent phone conversations with his brother, Jerry said he was "dismayed by the lack of energy (his brother) had," and by numerous health problems. "He felt he wasn't doing enough for the community," Jerry said.
Curda's main work at the monastery was editing, writing and shooting photographs for the abbey's newsletter— a job at which he excelled and for which he will be sorely missed, Lussier said.
When brothers at the monastery found blood at the bottom of the stairs where Curda fell, they at first thought someone had broken into the compound and committed a robbery. Lussier said that when he heard there was bag of acorns next to the blood he knew it was Curda who had been hurt.
"He missed evening prayer and we didn't think anything about it, because every once in awhile he gets occupied with something makes him late for prayer or miss it entirely," Lussier said.
Curda had made his way to his bed in his room, where brothers found him about two hours after the fall. After police and paramedics arrived he was flown to the trauma center at the University of New Mexico, where he died.
Jerry Curda said the family has plans to publish some of Curda's photographs and writing from his brother's sizable collection.
Dated: September 7, 2005
