YAZZIE, Abe

(Nov. 30, 1915 - Apr. 27, 2001) LOWER GREASEWOOD, Ariz. — Services for Abe Yazzie, 87, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 1, at Lower Greasewood Catholic Church. Father Flann will officiate. Burial will follow at Lower Greasewood Cemetery. A rosary will be recited at 5 p.m. tonight at Lower Greasewood Catholic Church. Yazzie died April 27 in Ganado, Ariz. He was born Nov. 30, 1915, in Lower Greasewood into the Red House People Clan for the Honey-Combed Rock People Clan. Yazzie attended school in St. Michaels, Ariz. He worked as a carpenter, a labor construction worker, with El Paso Pipeline and was a medicine man. Survivors include his sons, Tony Yazzie and Wilson L. Yazzie; daughters, Rose R. Yazzie, Susan Edgewater and Mary Ann Yazzie; brothers, Morris Yazzie and Stanley Yazzie; sister, Alice Yazzie; 28 grandchildren and 54 great-grandchildren. Yazzie was preceded in death by sons, Thomas Yazzie, Tom Lee Yazzie and Paul Yazzie, and daughters, Daisy Y. Curley and Maye L. Billie. Pallbearers will be family and friends. The family will receive friends and relatives after the burial services at Greasewood Chapter House. Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements