Evelyn N. Uyeji
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Friday, June 8, 2001, in Evergreen Staples Funeral Chapel for Evelyn N. Uyeji, who died June 3 at age 50. Mrs. Uyeji was born Evelyn Bentley Nequatewa on July 20, 1950, in Hotevilla, Ariz., and moved to Simnasho in 1967. She was a community counselor on the Warm Springs Reservation for about 20 years and a teacher's aide in the special-education program for the Vancouver, Wash., School District for the past three years. She moved to Vancouver about 1986. In 1968, she married Hamilton Greeley; they later divorced. In 1983, she married Les Uyeji.
Survivors include her husband; son, James Greeley; nephew she raised, Mike Gomez; nieces she raised, Linda Gomez and Peggy Sue Faria; brothers, Robert Nequatewa, Harold Nequatewa and Tyson Nequatewa; sisters, Emma Hatton, Diane Barbee and Mary Nez; and six grandchildren.
Remembrances to the ARDS Research gift fund at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
Jun 7, 2001 Portland Oregonian