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Seiling – Roy Bull Coming, 69 – year – old Cheyenne chief, died Monday in a Seiling hospital following a sudden illness. A Memorial service will be Thursday at 2 PM in the Seiling Indian Mennonite Church with the Reverend Lawrence Hart officiating.
The funeral will be Friday in the home, with graveside rites at 3 PM in the Cantonment Cemetery near Canton. Arrangements are under the direction of the Redinger Funeral Home of Seiling.
Bull Coming was born December 4, 1914, at Cantonment in Blaine County, the son of Bull Coming Up and Ida White. He had lived in Blaine and Dewey Counties all his life.
Bull Coming attended schools at Cantonment, Seeger Boarding School at Colony, Concho and Chilocco Indian Schools. He was a road construction worker before retiring.
He had served in the United States Army during World War II and was honorably discharged in 1945. Bull Coming was a member of the Indian Mennonite Church and the Native American Church.
He and Kathryn Nibbs were married in 1933 in Dewey County. They lived southeast of Seiling for a number of years.
In addition to his wife of the home, he is survived by a daughter, Maurine Island of Seiling; six sons, Vernon and Tommy Bull Coming, Lame Deer, Montana, George and Roy Dean Bull Coming of Seiling, Donald Bull Coming, Forisita, Colorado, and Herman Nelson of Holbrook; 30 grandchildren; three great – grandchildren; three sisters, Maggie Bull Coming, Canton, Ida Mae Whiteman, Seiling and Eleanor Red Cherries of Lame Deer. He was preceded in death by two daughters, a brother and five grandchildren.
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