KEONI, Elvin

INDIAN WELLS, Ariz. — Services for Elvin Keoni, 91, will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 10 at Halleluia Church, Indian Wells. Burial will follow at Indian Wells Community Cemetery. Keoni died Nov. 4 in Shiprock. He was born Oct. 15, 1910 in White Cone, Ariz. into the Big Water People Clan for the Bitter Water Clan. Keoni retired from the Santa Fe Railroad. Survivors include his wife, Helen Keoni; sons, Eugene Keoni, Dennis Keoni, Wayne Keoni and Leonard Keoni Sr.; daughters, Pauline Begay, LaVee Keoni, Carolyn Ayze and Donna Yazzie; brother, Carl Nez; 28 grandchildren and ten great- grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Wayne Keoni, Leonard Keoni Sr., Dennis Keoni, Kendrick Begay and Jerrod Keoni. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at the Keoni resident, Indian Wells. Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements