Chester M. Begay

CHESTER M. BEGAY Funeral services for longtime area resident, Chester M. Begay will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, December 29 at the Ertel Memorial Chapel. Interment will follow at the Cortez Cemetery. The Ute Mountain American Legion Post #75 will be conducting military honors. Reverend Bud Rousset will be officiating. Chester was born on August 1, 1921 at Emanuel Mission, Ariz. the son of Haskan Tsosie Begay and Mae Minnie Mud. He passed away on Friday, December 23, 2005 at the Valley Inn Nursing Home in Mancos at the age of 84. Chester was a World War II Army Veteran who went on to work as a carpenter’s apprentice for the Navajo generating power plant in Page, Ariz. He was known as a “hands on” person who worked well as a both a carpenter and mechanic. He liked traveling, prospecting, hiking and riding horses. Chester also liked herding sheep and cattle and just enjoying the outdoors. Surviving Chester are his wife, Molly of Mexican Water; his children, April, Anderson, Rose Marie, Dorothy, Louise, Kenneth, Marie and Helena; his seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren; and his brothers, John W. Yazzie, Dan Mud and Kee O. Mud. Preceding him in death were his parents. Memorial contributions can be made in Chester’s name to Molly Begay, P.O. Box 1311, Teec Nos Pos, AZ, 86514.