Hatch Daily Digest Monday, October 05, 2026
Ty's Take
Nancy Carol Coates and Thomas Ocie Williams, both gone this week, both names that meant something in the valley. That's how it works in towns like this, where you see the same families at the co-op, at church, at the roasting sheds when the season kicks in. The obits don't always spell out who they were to the place, but the people who knew them know. They carried stories. They had roots here. The work of remembering falls to those of us still around, which is why we run these notices the way we do, not as formality but as fact: these people lived here, and now they don't.
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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 following complications from cancer. Born in Kansas City, MO, she was a longtime rancher who moved to Red Rock, NM in 1998 with her husband Timothy and was active in The Church of Jesus Christ of...
Thomas Ocie Williams, 78, passed away June 22, 2026, in Las Cruces, New Mexico after a career as a playwright and actor with Agatha's A Taste of Mystery in Atlanta from 1988 to 2005. His wife, Barbara Louis Williams, will host a Celebration of Life for Tom on October 18 at the Sunset Grill at...
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