THUNDER BUTTE - Services for Theodore M. High Elk, 53, will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Thunder Butte, with the Very Rev Wilbur Bear's Heart, the Rev Sidney Pratt and Senior Catechist Earlwin Red Bird Sr. officiating.
High Elk died Thursday while en route by ambulance from his home in Thunder Butte to the hospital in Eagle Butte.
Burial will be at 2 p m Wednesday at Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis, under direction of Kesling Funeral Home of Mobridge.
He was born March 23, 1937, at Thunder Butte to Jobe and Estella (Slides Off) High Elk and grew up at Thunder Butte.
After attending high school at Cheyenne Agency and working as a ranch hand in the area, he joined the Army in October 1960 and served in France and Germany. Following his discharge from the Army in 1964, he returned to Thunder Butte, where on Jan. 3, 1965, he married Faye Iron Bird.
They lived at Thunder Butte for a year before moving to Eagle Butte, where he worked for the Cheyenne-River Telephone Authority.
In 1985, they returned to Thunder Butte. He was a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church and was a senior warden there. He was also a district chairman for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and served on the Sioux YMCA board of directors.
Survivors include his wife, of Thunder Butte; two daughters, Danelle (Mrs. Cliff) LaFramboise of Sioux Falls and Kristi High Elk of Thunder Butte; one son, Elwood High Elk of Nemo; one granddaughter; three brothers, Wesley and Paul High Elk, both of Thunder Butte, and Floyd High Elk of Dupree; and two sisters, Maxine Takes The Gun of Dupree and Corrine High Elk of Eagle Butte.
He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and one sister.
Rapid City Journal Rapid City, South Dakota 01 May 1990, Tue • Page 16
High Elk died Thursday while en route by ambulance from his home in Thunder Butte to the hospital in Eagle Butte.
Burial will be at 2 p m Wednesday at Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis, under direction of Kesling Funeral Home of Mobridge.
He was born March 23, 1937, at Thunder Butte to Jobe and Estella (Slides Off) High Elk and grew up at Thunder Butte.
After attending high school at Cheyenne Agency and working as a ranch hand in the area, he joined the Army in October 1960 and served in France and Germany. Following his discharge from the Army in 1964, he returned to Thunder Butte, where on Jan. 3, 1965, he married Faye Iron Bird.
They lived at Thunder Butte for a year before moving to Eagle Butte, where he worked for the Cheyenne-River Telephone Authority.
In 1985, they returned to Thunder Butte. He was a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church and was a senior warden there. He was also a district chairman for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and served on the Sioux YMCA board of directors.
Survivors include his wife, of Thunder Butte; two daughters, Danelle (Mrs. Cliff) LaFramboise of Sioux Falls and Kristi High Elk of Thunder Butte; one son, Elwood High Elk of Nemo; one granddaughter; three brothers, Wesley and Paul High Elk, both of Thunder Butte, and Floyd High Elk of Dupree; and two sisters, Maxine Takes The Gun of Dupree and Corrine High Elk of Eagle Butte.
He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and one sister.
Rapid City Journal Rapid City, South Dakota 01 May 1990, Tue • Page 16
THUNDER BUTTE - Services for Theodore M. High Elk, 53, will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Thunder Butte, with the Very Rev Wilbur Bear's Heart, the Rev Sidney Pratt and Senior Catechist Earlwin Red Bird Sr. officiating.
High Elk died Thursday while en route by ambulance from his home in Thunder Butte to the hospital in Eagle Butte.
Burial will be at 2 p m Wednesday at Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis, under direction of Kesling Funeral Home of Mobridge.
He was born March 23, 1937, at Thunder Butte to Jobe and Estella (Slides Off) High Elk and grew up at Thunder Butte.
After attending high school at Cheyenne Agency and working as a ranch hand in the area, he joined the Army in October 1960 and served in France and Germany. Following his discharge from the Army in 1964, he returned to Thunder Butte, where on Jan. 3, 1965, he married Faye Iron Bird.
They lived at Thunder Butte for a year before moving to Eagle Butte, where he worked for the Cheyenne-River Telephone Authority.
In 1985, they returned to Thunder Butte. He was a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church and was a senior warden there. He was also a district chairman for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and served on the Sioux YMCA board of directors.
Survivors include his wife, of Thunder Butte; two daughters, Danelle (Mrs. Cliff) LaFramboise of Sioux Falls and Kristi High Elk of Thunder Butte; one son, Elwood High Elk of Nemo; one granddaughter; three brothers, Wesley and Paul High Elk, both of Thunder Butte, and Floyd High Elk of Dupree; and two sisters, Maxine Takes The Gun of Dupree and Corrine High Elk of Eagle Butte.
He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and one sister.
Rapid City Journal Rapid City, South Dakota 01 May 1990, Tue • Page 16
High Elk died Thursday while en route by ambulance from his home in Thunder Butte to the hospital in Eagle Butte.
Burial will be at 2 p m Wednesday at Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis, under direction of Kesling Funeral Home of Mobridge.
He was born March 23, 1937, at Thunder Butte to Jobe and Estella (Slides Off) High Elk and grew up at Thunder Butte.
After attending high school at Cheyenne Agency and working as a ranch hand in the area, he joined the Army in October 1960 and served in France and Germany. Following his discharge from the Army in 1964, he returned to Thunder Butte, where on Jan. 3, 1965, he married Faye Iron Bird.
They lived at Thunder Butte for a year before moving to Eagle Butte, where he worked for the Cheyenne-River Telephone Authority.
In 1985, they returned to Thunder Butte. He was a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church and was a senior warden there. He was also a district chairman for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and served on the Sioux YMCA board of directors.
Survivors include his wife, of Thunder Butte; two daughters, Danelle (Mrs. Cliff) LaFramboise of Sioux Falls and Kristi High Elk of Thunder Butte; one son, Elwood High Elk of Nemo; one granddaughter; three brothers, Wesley and Paul High Elk, both of Thunder Butte, and Floyd High Elk of Dupree; and two sisters, Maxine Takes The Gun of Dupree and Corrine High Elk of Eagle Butte.
He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and one sister.
Rapid City Journal Rapid City, South Dakota 01 May 1990, Tue • Page 16
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