Wylene ‘Chris’ Corbett1 min read

Wylene ‘Chris’ Corbett

Aug. 17, 1934 — July 20, 2021

Wylene “Chris” Corbett, 86, of Sedona, died July 20.

She was preceded in death by her husband, James Corbett, M.D.

She is survived by her daughter Susan [Les] and Les Miller of Portland, Ore.; bonus children, Suzanne and Bob Sypert, Joan and Ron Palelek, Jim and Jane Corbett, and Mary and Steve Bache; sister Gloria [Tom] Stewart; many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

A celebration of life will be held Monday, Jan. 17 at 11 a.m. at Poco Diablo Resort. She will be interred at the National Cemetery in Phoenix with her husband.

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Christopher Fox Graham

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."

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