Services for Blas Saucedo Jr., 68, will be at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Gallup. To honor Saucedo, his family invites family and friends to attend his Rosary and memorial services. A reception for those he loved and cherished will follow one hour after at the Knights of Columbus.
Saucedo died on Sunday, February 4, 2007 in Gallup. He was born on February 12, 1938 in Gallup.
Saucedo was a Seabee Veteran of the United States Naval Mobile Construction Battalion No. 11 as a welder/pipe fitter. He was also the founder and president of the motorcycle club called the Syndicate, MC from 1972 to 1983. He returned home to Gallup and worked for McKinley Area Services for the Handicapped for seventeen years as the woodshop teacher and operations manager from 1986 to 2000. His hobbies and interests included being with family (especially grandchildren), gardening, painting, barbequing and grocery shopping.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara Iris Saucedo; children, Gina Saucedo, Dina Saucedo, Denise Martin, Laura Vickers, Blas Saucedo III, Joseph Saucedo, and B. Elena Saucedo; seventeen grandchildren.
He is preceded in death by his father, Blas Saucedo Sr., and his mother, Soledad Garcia Saucedo.