![Marine Code Talker Alfred K. Newman passed away Jan. 13. He was 94. Flags were flown at half-staff on the day of his funeral services. Photo Credit: Courtesy of OPVP](/images/resized/images/news/2016/199_jan25/32_100_100.jpg)
President, VP attend the Crystal, N.M. service
A part of the dedicated U.S. Marine Navajo Code Talkers, whose language skills outwitted the Japanese during WWII, Alfred K. Newman was laid in Whiskey Creek, near Crystal, N.M., Jan. 19.
He was born on July 21, 1924, at Rehoboth Hospital in Gallup, N.M. and resided in Kirtland, N.M. He passed away at Bloomfield Nursing Home in Bloomfield, N.M. Code Talker Newman was Naaneesht’ézhi Dine’é (Zuni Clan) and born for Tsi’naajínii (Black Streak Wood People Clan).
Newman enlisted with the United States Marine Corps on March 26, 1943, at Fort Wingate and became part of the 1st Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment...