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Canton Indian Mennonite Cemetery

Canton, Blaine County, Oklahoma

© Shaw-Redinger Funeral Home
Submitted by: Ann Weber

Lenora Mae (Redcherries) LaFountain

May 12, 1962 ~ October 07, 2017

Lenora Mae (Redcherries) LaFountain passed from this life on October 7, 2017 at the age of 55 years, 4 months, and 25 days.

She was born on May 12, 1962 in Clinton, OK to Franklin Redcherries Sr. and Eleanor (Bullcoming) Redcherries. Lenora lived in Seiling most of her life, but also lived in Lame Deer, MT, Colstrip, MT, Woodward, Clinton, and Guymon, OK. She attended St. Labre Indian High School before graduating early with a G.E.D. from Dull Knife Memorial College in May of 1979.

In 1980 she married Anthony LaFountain, Sr. in Lame Deer, MT, and to this marriage six children were born: Anthony, Jr., Tiffiny, Tammy, Kermit, James Dean, and Tina Lynn LaFountain. She worked as a cook at the Northern Cheyenne Headstart, and as maintenance at Lucky Star Casino, but spent most of her life as a homemaker for her family.

Lenora came from a long line of Cheyenne Chiefs on both her father's Northern Cheyenne side and her mother's Southern Cheyenne side. She was a third generation direct descendant of Chief Little Wolf, who led his people on the historic trek back up to the ancestral lands in Montana, where the present day Northern Cheyenne Reservation is. She was very proud of her Cheyenne heritage and exhibited that. She was the kindest, friendliest, most caring, giving, and humble person. Although she had nothing, she'd give whatever she did have to help anyone who asked. She loved everybody. Her laugh was contagious, and had a sense of humor that was genuinely "her." Also genuine to Lenora's nature was that she spoke from the heart, painfully honest, talkative, and yes sometimes even headstrong and stubborn.

Lenora was preceded in death by her parents Frank, Sr. and Eleanor Redcherries; brother Franklin Redcherries, Jr.; sister Rosemarie Redcherries, mother-in-law Carol Redcherries, uncles Rock Redcherries and Roy Bullcoming, and aunts Mae (Bullcoming) Whiteman and Dora Walter.

Lenora leaves a large family including children Anthony LaFountain, Jr of Seiling, Tiffiny Montgomery and husband Wayne of Seiling, Tammy Fortner and husband Blaine of Billings, MT, Kermit LaFountain of Billings,, James Dean LaFountain of Seiling, and Tina Lynn LaFountain of Ada, OK; 13 grandchildren including MJ Montgomery, who was the light of her life, brothers Adolph Redcherries of Clinton, OK, T. James Redcherries of Geary, OK; sister Noreen (Redcherries) Harris of Lame Deer, MT; a sister/niece Renecia Rose Youngbull of Lame Deer, several cousins that were raised as brothers and sisters including Betty (Whiteman) Dennison of Woodward, OK, Florence Whiteman of Duluth, MN, Gordon Whiteman of Seiling, Nathaniel "Sanskie" Whiteman and wife Patricia of Seiling, Vernon Bullcoming and wife Rhoda of Lame Deer, and Roy Dean Bullcoming of Seiling; other cousins Doreen Watan of Weatherford, OK, Linda Daniels of Seiling, Barbara Sankey of Canton, OK, Nora Redcherries of Ethete, WY, an uncle Howard Twenty Stands of Lame Deer, as well as numerous other cousins, nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles far too numerous to count.

A traditional Cheyenne Wake service will be held Wednesday night beginning at 7:00 PM at the C-1 Community Building. Funeral Services will be held at Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 1:00 PM at the C-1 Building. Burial will follow at Cantonment Cemetery.