Betty Jean “Granny” Brown, 80, passed peacefully surrounded by her children and close friends of the family on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, at her home in Holbrook. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 11, at the Faith Assembly of God church, located at 311 E. Erie St. in Holbrook. A viewing will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 10, at the church.
Betty was a strong God loving woman. She was born June 2, 1935, in Tseholon, and later moved her family to Holbrook.
She loved reading her Bible, singing gospel music, learning to sing in Navajo, cooking, and doing what she could to take care of friends, family and anyone in need. She loved to work on her puzzle books, collect anything with a picture of wolves and traveling.
Survivors include seven children, David W. Brown, Nathaniel Bahe, Yvonne Brown, Frederica Brown, Lydia Taylor, Merletha Minor and Sabrina Yellowhair; 16 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandson; two sisters. Rita Thomas and Irene Yellowhair; and two brothers, Jackson Yazzie and Steven Bahe.
She was preceded in death by a grandson, Kenneth W. Brown; her mother, Zonnie Grant, a grandson, Fernando Al-Pacino; and a sister, Esther Bahe-Parsons.
Greer’s Mortuary of Winslow was in charge of the arrangements.
