Obituary - Jennifer Rose Windy Boy, Chief Woman, O-gi-mow E-skwa-wuh, and Gourd Woman, Si-si-gwon E-skwa-wuh

Jennifer Rose Windy Boy, Chief Woman, O-gi-mow E-skwa-wuh, and Gourd Woman, Si-si-gwon E-skwa-wuh, 34, passed away due to natural causes at Billings Clinic Saturday, February 1, 2020.

Wake services began at 5:00 p.m. Monday, February 3, 2020, and continued until her funeral service at 11:00 a.m. today, February 4, 2020, all at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Rocky Boy. Burial followed in the Windy Boy Cemetery.

Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.

Please visit Jennifer’s online memorial page and leave a message of condolence for her family at http:/www.hollandbonine.com .

Jennifer was born May 29, 1985, in Poplar to Denise Blount and Jonathan Windy Boy. She was raised between Frazer and Rocky Boy, attending school in both locations.

In 2005, she attended Kicking Horse Job Corps in Ronan where she received her GED and her certificate in culinary arts. Over the next several years, she worked as a dispatcher and convenience store clerk. She became certified as a tribal field monitor technician, and absolutely enjoyed the work.

Jennifer was a family-oriented, bubbly young woman who loved the outdoors, traveling, dancing, listening to Northern Cree Drum Group and Stoney Park Drum Group, gambling, and playing basketball. She was a former Red Bottom Junior Princess who enjoyed watching her daddy dancing and listening to daddy’s two personal songs. She was also very proud of her culture and heritage and enjoyed participating in ceremonies.

Jennifer’s big smile and dimples brought happiness to people, and her respect was a credit to her upbringing.

She was preceded in death by her grandparents Dennis George Blount, John Windy Boy Sr. and Katherine First Raised; uncles Phillip Smoker Sr. and John Windy Boy Jr .; aunt Kathy Gardipee, and close cousins John Henry Windy Boy and Howard Racine Jr.

Jennifer is survived by her children, Jenuine Ry’Lynne Gray-Windy Boy, Jazmyn Rose Windy Boy and Joanie, Jaimie, Aaron, Jonathan, and John Windy Boy-Beston; parents, Denise Garfield of Frazer and Jonathan Windy Boy of Rocky Boy; sister, Katherine Garfield of Billings; grandmother Joan Blount of Wolf Point; stepbrother, Mervin Garfield Jr. of Wolf Point; aunts Nadine (Carroll) DeCoteau of Frazer and Sandra (Joseph) White Eagle of Wolf Point and Geri (Howard) Racine, Myra Windy Boy, Valerie Windy Boy, and Cheryl Windy Boy, all of Rocky Boy; uncles Alvin (Jessica) Windy Boy Sr., and Everett Windy Boy, all of Rocky Boy, and Wesley (Ursula) Windy Boy Sr. of Tuba City, AZ; adopted siblings, Lisa Sangrey, Shoshana Saddler, Chavonne Parker, Winona Runsabove, Tina Azure, JoLynn Bad Hawk, the Fiddler sisters, Coby Stump, Nathaniel “Moon” Windy Boy, Ryan Windy Boy, Al Obey, Tim Eashappie Jr., and Walter Runsabove; adopted parents Danna and the late Bill Runsabove, and numerous cousins, nieces, nephews, and other extended family and friends.