Las Cruces Daily Digest Sunday, September 20, 2026
Ty's Take
Nancy Carol Coates was 84 when she passed, and if you've lived here long enough you know that means she watched this valley transform from something smaller into what it is now. That's the kind of life span that carries weight in a town like ours, the kind that reminds you who was here before the sprawl, before the I-10 corridor filled in, before every other lot got sold off to developers. The obituary is where we mark time in a small community, where we acknowledge the people who built what we're standing on. Seems worth noting.
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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 operated a ranch in Red Rock, NM with her husband. She is survived by her husband,...
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