Frank Chee Willetto, Sr., a Navajo and native of New Mexico, is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/santafe.asp. 
 He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on March 26, 1943. PFC Willetto served as a Navajo Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II. In 2001 The Navajo Code Talkers were presented with the Congressional Silver Medal. Willetto later served in the government of the Navajo Nation, as a tribal councilman (1974-86), Supreme Council Judge, and President of the Pueblo Pintado Chapter (1986-2012). He died June 23, 2012.
https://www.indianz.com/News/2012/006240.asp.
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