ROCKY BOY - Sybil Lee Sangrey-Colliflower, 53, died Tuesday Nov. 26, 2002, due to injuries sustained in an automobile accident on Montana Secondary Highway Route 10, known locally as the Laredo Road.
Wake began Thursday afternoon at the Rocky Boy Catholic Church. Funeral service is 11 am Saturday at the Rocky Boy Catholic Church with the Rev. Pete Guthneck officiating. Burial is to follow at the 6 Bar Y Family Cemetery.
Services and arrangements are under the direction of the Holland and Bonine Funeral Home.
Sybil was born March 6, 1949, to Samuel and Minnie Gopher Sangrey at Rocky Boy. She was raised in Helena and Rocky Boy. She attended elementary school at Central School in Helena and Helena Junior High. She graduated from Box Elder High School in 1967. She attended Eastern Montana College and graduated from Northern Montana College. She obtained a bachelor's degree in elementary education with an extended English major in 1971. She received her Master's degree in school administration from Montana State University-Bozeman.
On August 21, 1970, Sybil married John E. Colliflower III at Denver, Colorado. To this union, four children were born. Sybil was employed at the Chippewa Cree Tribal Office as the tribal grant writer at the time of her death.
Prior to employment as the tribal grants writer, she served as the grants write for the Rocky Boy Health Board. During her tenure she was responsible for the creating many of the new jobs and programs the tribe currently has which provide many of the new health services for the Chippewa Cree people.
She was past president of the United Indian Rodeo Association, and organized professional Indian rodeos as well as youth rodeos and related horsemanship activities. She was also a competitive barrel racer. Her efforts to provide training opportunities for youth interested her in the sport of rodeo including bringing PRCA champions, such as current World Champion Saddle Bronc Rider, Tommy Reeves to the 6 Bar Y Family Ranch to train aspiring cowboys. She established the first annual Rocky Boy Rodeo in the Summer of 2002 at the new arena which she helped create.
Sybil will be missed by Indian people throughout Indian country. Many of her efforts to help Indian people help themselves are felt nationwide. The Chippewa Cree people as well as Indian people all over the United States lost a true Indian advocate. She will be missed by her entire family and all of the people whose lives she influenced.
She was preceded in death by her father, Samuel Sangrey, and two sisters, Inez and Charlotte Sangrey.
Sybil is survived by her mother, Minnie Sangrey, husband John Colliflower Jr, Lyman Colliflower, Wade (Clintana) Colliflower and Jesse Colliflower; sisters Patsy Raining Bird, Rena Gardipee, and Ramona (Odin) Henderson, brothers James "Buzzy" Sangrey, Richard (Connie) Sangrey, Mike (Delphine) Sangrey, Dennis Sangrey, all of Rockyk Boy, and Samuel "Sam" (Harriet) Sangrey of San Deigo, Calif; grandchild Enyis Colliflower of Rocky Boy; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Published November 2002 | Havre Daily News
Wake began Thursday afternoon at the Rocky Boy Catholic Church. Funeral service is 11 am Saturday at the Rocky Boy Catholic Church with the Rev. Pete Guthneck officiating. Burial is to follow at the 6 Bar Y Family Cemetery.
Services and arrangements are under the direction of the Holland and Bonine Funeral Home.
Sybil was born March 6, 1949, to Samuel and Minnie Gopher Sangrey at Rocky Boy. She was raised in Helena and Rocky Boy. She attended elementary school at Central School in Helena and Helena Junior High. She graduated from Box Elder High School in 1967. She attended Eastern Montana College and graduated from Northern Montana College. She obtained a bachelor's degree in elementary education with an extended English major in 1971. She received her Master's degree in school administration from Montana State University-Bozeman.
On August 21, 1970, Sybil married John E. Colliflower III at Denver, Colorado. To this union, four children were born. Sybil was employed at the Chippewa Cree Tribal Office as the tribal grant writer at the time of her death.
Prior to employment as the tribal grants writer, she served as the grants write for the Rocky Boy Health Board. During her tenure she was responsible for the creating many of the new jobs and programs the tribe currently has which provide many of the new health services for the Chippewa Cree people.
She was past president of the United Indian Rodeo Association, and organized professional Indian rodeos as well as youth rodeos and related horsemanship activities. She was also a competitive barrel racer. Her efforts to provide training opportunities for youth interested her in the sport of rodeo including bringing PRCA champions, such as current World Champion Saddle Bronc Rider, Tommy Reeves to the 6 Bar Y Family Ranch to train aspiring cowboys. She established the first annual Rocky Boy Rodeo in the Summer of 2002 at the new arena which she helped create.
Sybil will be missed by Indian people throughout Indian country. Many of her efforts to help Indian people help themselves are felt nationwide. The Chippewa Cree people as well as Indian people all over the United States lost a true Indian advocate. She will be missed by her entire family and all of the people whose lives she influenced.
She was preceded in death by her father, Samuel Sangrey, and two sisters, Inez and Charlotte Sangrey.
Sybil is survived by her mother, Minnie Sangrey, husband John Colliflower Jr, Lyman Colliflower, Wade (Clintana) Colliflower and Jesse Colliflower; sisters Patsy Raining Bird, Rena Gardipee, and Ramona (Odin) Henderson, brothers James "Buzzy" Sangrey, Richard (Connie) Sangrey, Mike (Delphine) Sangrey, Dennis Sangrey, all of Rockyk Boy, and Samuel "Sam" (Harriet) Sangrey of San Deigo, Calif; grandchild Enyis Colliflower of Rocky Boy; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Published November 2002 | Havre Daily News
ROCKY BOY - Sybil Lee Sangrey-Colliflower, 53, died Tuesday Nov. 26, 2002, due to injuries sustained in an automobile accident on Montana Secondary Highway Route 10, known locally as the Laredo Road.
Wake began Thursday afternoon at the Rocky Boy Catholic Church. Funeral service is 11 am Saturday at the Rocky Boy Catholic Church with the Rev. Pete Guthneck officiating. Burial is to follow at the 6 Bar Y Family Cemetery.
Services and arrangements are under the direction of the Holland and Bonine Funeral Home.
Sybil was born March 6, 1949, to Samuel and Minnie Gopher Sangrey at Rocky Boy. She was raised in Helena and Rocky Boy. She attended elementary school at Central School in Helena and Helena Junior High. She graduated from Box Elder High School in 1967. She attended Eastern Montana College and graduated from Northern Montana College. She obtained a bachelor's degree in elementary education with an extended English major in 1971. She received her Master's degree in school administration from Montana State University-Bozeman.
On August 21, 1970, Sybil married John E. Colliflower III at Denver, Colorado. To this union, four children were born. Sybil was employed at the Chippewa Cree Tribal Office as the tribal grant writer at the time of her death.
Prior to employment as the tribal grants writer, she served as the grants write for the Rocky Boy Health Board. During her tenure she was responsible for the creating many of the new jobs and programs the tribe currently has which provide many of the new health services for the Chippewa Cree people.
She was past president of the United Indian Rodeo Association, and organized professional Indian rodeos as well as youth rodeos and related horsemanship activities. She was also a competitive barrel racer. Her efforts to provide training opportunities for youth interested her in the sport of rodeo including bringing PRCA champions, such as current World Champion Saddle Bronc Rider, Tommy Reeves to the 6 Bar Y Family Ranch to train aspiring cowboys. She established the first annual Rocky Boy Rodeo in the Summer of 2002 at the new arena which she helped create.
Sybil will be missed by Indian people throughout Indian country. Many of her efforts to help Indian people help themselves are felt nationwide. The Chippewa Cree people as well as Indian people all over the United States lost a true Indian advocate. She will be missed by her entire family and all of the people whose lives she influenced.
She was preceded in death by her father, Samuel Sangrey, and two sisters, Inez and Charlotte Sangrey.
Sybil is survived by her mother, Minnie Sangrey, husband John Colliflower Jr, Lyman Colliflower, Wade (Clintana) Colliflower and Jesse Colliflower; sisters Patsy Raining Bird, Rena Gardipee, and Ramona (Odin) Henderson, brothers James "Buzzy" Sangrey, Richard (Connie) Sangrey, Mike (Delphine) Sangrey, Dennis Sangrey, all of Rockyk Boy, and Samuel "Sam" (Harriet) Sangrey of San Deigo, Calif; grandchild Enyis Colliflower of Rocky Boy; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Published November 2002 | Havre Daily News
Wake began Thursday afternoon at the Rocky Boy Catholic Church. Funeral service is 11 am Saturday at the Rocky Boy Catholic Church with the Rev. Pete Guthneck officiating. Burial is to follow at the 6 Bar Y Family Cemetery.
Services and arrangements are under the direction of the Holland and Bonine Funeral Home.
Sybil was born March 6, 1949, to Samuel and Minnie Gopher Sangrey at Rocky Boy. She was raised in Helena and Rocky Boy. She attended elementary school at Central School in Helena and Helena Junior High. She graduated from Box Elder High School in 1967. She attended Eastern Montana College and graduated from Northern Montana College. She obtained a bachelor's degree in elementary education with an extended English major in 1971. She received her Master's degree in school administration from Montana State University-Bozeman.
On August 21, 1970, Sybil married John E. Colliflower III at Denver, Colorado. To this union, four children were born. Sybil was employed at the Chippewa Cree Tribal Office as the tribal grant writer at the time of her death.
Prior to employment as the tribal grants writer, she served as the grants write for the Rocky Boy Health Board. During her tenure she was responsible for the creating many of the new jobs and programs the tribe currently has which provide many of the new health services for the Chippewa Cree people.
She was past president of the United Indian Rodeo Association, and organized professional Indian rodeos as well as youth rodeos and related horsemanship activities. She was also a competitive barrel racer. Her efforts to provide training opportunities for youth interested her in the sport of rodeo including bringing PRCA champions, such as current World Champion Saddle Bronc Rider, Tommy Reeves to the 6 Bar Y Family Ranch to train aspiring cowboys. She established the first annual Rocky Boy Rodeo in the Summer of 2002 at the new arena which she helped create.
Sybil will be missed by Indian people throughout Indian country. Many of her efforts to help Indian people help themselves are felt nationwide. The Chippewa Cree people as well as Indian people all over the United States lost a true Indian advocate. She will be missed by her entire family and all of the people whose lives she influenced.
She was preceded in death by her father, Samuel Sangrey, and two sisters, Inez and Charlotte Sangrey.
Sybil is survived by her mother, Minnie Sangrey, husband John Colliflower Jr, Lyman Colliflower, Wade (Clintana) Colliflower and Jesse Colliflower; sisters Patsy Raining Bird, Rena Gardipee, and Ramona (Odin) Henderson, brothers James "Buzzy" Sangrey, Richard (Connie) Sangrey, Mike (Delphine) Sangrey, Dennis Sangrey, all of Rockyk Boy, and Samuel "Sam" (Harriet) Sangrey of San Deigo, Calif; grandchild Enyis Colliflower of Rocky Boy; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Published November 2002 | Havre Daily News
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