WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) – The Latest on the death of a Navajo Code Talker (all times local):
3:45 p.m.
Funeral services are scheduled Thursday for a Navajo Code Talker who died in New Mexico.
Navajo Nation officials say David Patterson Sr. died Sunday in Rio Rancho from pneumonia and complications from bleeding in the brain. He was 94.
Patterson was among hundreds of Navajos who served in the Marine Corps, using a code based on their native language to outsmart the Japanese in World War II.