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Dr. Elwood C Rosenblatt – (Woody) passed away on March 6, 2024. He was 94 years-old. He lived in Corrales for almost 40 years. He had a medical practice in Albuquerque for many years in internal medicine and allergy. He graduated from Rutgers College and Jefferson Medical School with further training at the University of Michigan.Â
Woody is survived by his wife Audrey and his daughter Anne […]
Antonio Planells (1937-2024) passed away in Rio Rancho, NM, September 7, 2024. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the only child of Antonio Planells Bonet and Carmen Irene Bravo. He married Lila V. de Jubecourt in 1983 and she preceded Antonio in death. He is survived by his two sons, Antonio Juan and Gabriel Alexander; […]
Leo Cafferty of Corrales, passed away June 20, 2024. He was born Sept. 8, 1927, to Peter and Mary Cafferty in Marshfield, Wisconsin. Leo grew up during the Great Depression as a farm boy and the second youngest of 8 children. The trials of the period would influence him for the rest of his life. […]
Bill Vega was born and raised in New Jersey. After graduating from Princeton, Bill served three years in the Navy. Upon leaving the Navy, Bill joined the research and development department of General Dynamics. In his thirty year career there he rose through the management and leadership ranks ending his career as Vice President of Research and […]
Terry Kominiak was a teacher at Corrales Elementary from 1996 until her retirement in December 2023. She passed away unexpectedly on Monday, June 17, 2024.
In many ways Terry was the person that we all strive to be: Everyone’s better nature. Her motives were always ethical; do right because it’s right. She did the right thing because that was fundamentally who she was and not because she felt it was expected or that she wanted to impress. […]
Terry Kominiak was a teacher at Corrales Elementary from 1996 until her retirement in December 2023. She passed away unexpectedly on Monday, June 17, 2024.Â
In many ways Terry was the person that we all strive to be: Everyone’s better nature. Her motives were always ethical; do right because it’s right. She did the right thing because that was fundamentally who she was and not because she felt it was expected or that she wanted to impress. […]
6/17/1930 – 6/20/2024
She arrived in Japan rumpled and exhausted, barely 22, with a six-month-old on her hip. She introduced the baby to his father, David, and David introduced her to her new alias: Mrs Sally Moore. Welcome to the life of an early 1950s CIA wife.
Americans weren’t supposed to fraternize with Japanese in those early post-war years but that didn’t stop Sally McGrath, […]
Marilyn Kay Burgess passed away June 18, 2024, after a long illness. Kay is survived by her husband of 62 years, Jack Burgess of Corrales; daughters Ellen of Albuquerque; Anne and husband Ken Stabler of Parker, Colorado; grandson Ryan Stabler; and nephews Jim and Ray Greggerson. Marilyn Kay Rutz was born November 15, 1938, in El Paso, […]
Ken Duckert, resident of Corrales New Mexico for 12 years, died at his home on May 19 of a rare form of aggressive leukemia. As a boy in Michigan, he roamed the local fields, woods and streams developing his strong interest in nature. After working as a sports photographer for several Detroit area newspapers, he began combining his love of nature with his photographic skills. […]
Sondra Hammack (88) died April 21st, and David Hammack (95) followed her on May 19th. They celebrated their 71st wedding anniversary in March of this year.
David Hammack and Sondra Long met in Los Gatos, California and were married on March 7th, 1953. They did refugee relief work in Europe in 1955, came to New Mexico in 1956, […]
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