Christopher A. Tendore

Christopher A. Tendore, 22, of Rocky Boy, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, at Peace Hospice in Great Falls, due to injuries sustained in April. Wake services will begin at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, with funeral services following at 11 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 8, 2014, all at the Patsy Raining Bird residence on Day Star Road. Burial will follow in Rocky Boy Cemetery.  

Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.  Please visit Chris' online memorial page and leave a message of condolence for his family at http://www.hollandbonine.com.

Chris was born on Aug. 23, 1992, in Havre to Lynn Tendore and Susan Raining Bird. He was raised in Rocky Boy, attending school there. In 2010, he graduated from Youth Build at Northern Montana College, and worked as a carpenter on the jail and clinic in Rocky Boy. He began attending Stone Child College in August 2013, and was still attending college when he received the injuries that eventually took his life.

Chris was preceded in death by his grandfathers, Alan Tendore and Ivan Raining Bird; his uncles, Richard Tendore and Dennis Sangrey; and his close uncle Charles "Simmer" Raining Bird; and his aunt, Sybil Cauliflower.

He is survived by his father, Lynn (Kristi Bell) Tendore of Fort Washakie, Wyoming; his mother, Susan Raining Bird of Rocky Boy; his brothers, Gregory Charles Raining Bird and Jacob LaMere, both of Rocky Boy, Bryant Tillman of Fort Washakie, Wyoming, Cole Little Shield of Arapaho, Wyoming, Dakota Snyder of Fort Washakie, Justin Bell of Lander, Wyoming and Aaron Weed, Alan Tendore and Lynn Tendore Jr., all of Fort Washakie; his sisters, Latia Tendore and Laleilia Calls In, both of Fort Washakie, and Ryan and Taline Bell, both of Lander; his grandmothers, Irene Tendore of Fort Washakie, and Patsy Raining Bird, Pearl Whitford, Myrtle Raining Bird, Janice Myers and Barbara Fourstar, all of Rocky Boy; his uncle, Greg, Daniel (Wanda), Gerry and Ivan John (Donna) Raining Bird; his aunt, Theda (Sid) Blunt; and numerous other beloved aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews and other extended family and friends.