Eddy Co. NM - OBIT:  Manuel B. Ortega

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The following excerpts are taken from page 14 - The Artesia
(NM) Daily Press - September 5, 1999

MANUEL B. ORTEGA
Services are scheduled at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, September 7, at
Our Lady Of Grace Catholic Church, for Manuel B. Ortega of
207 Paris.  Ortega, 54, died September 3, 1999 at his mother's
home in Artesia.  Interment will be at Woodbine Cemetery, 
following the service.  A rosary will be said at 7 p.m.
Monday at Our Lady of Grace.  Ortega was born in Artesia on
September 15, 1944, the son of Enrique Ortega and Dominga
Barragan Ortega.  Survivors include his mother, Dominga Ortega
of Artesia; sons Manuel Ortega Jr. of Beeville, Texas, and
Anthony Ortega of Durant, Oklahoma; brothers Louis Ortega and
Amos Ortega, both of Artesia; sisters Alice Ortega, Mary Ortega,
Flora Ortega, Jane Cabezuela, Henrietta DeLaRosa, Frances Lara,
and Margie Ramirez, all of Artesia.