Hatch Daily Digest Saturday, September 12, 2026
Ty's Take
Nancy Carol Coates made it to 84, which in farming country means she saw the Hatch Valley change from irrigation ditches you could wade across to the organized business it is now. Those years add up different when you're tied to a place, when the same roads take you past the same fields through decades of seasons. The Bulletin ran her notice today, and that's how we mark the turning over of generations around here, one name at a time. She was part of the fabric, and now there's a gap where she was.
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Las Cruces Bulletin
Nancy Carol Coates, 84, of Vado, NM, died August 26, 2026, at Mountain View Hospital in Las Cruces from cancer complications. Born in Kansas City, MO in 1941, she married Timothy Coates in Hatch, NM in 1978 and later ranched in Red Rock, NM while remaining active in The Church of Jesus Christ of...
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