Josephine Walking Night

A graveside service (family only) for Josephine Walking Night, 75, Hammon resident will be held Monday in the Hammon Indian Mennonite Cemetery, officiated by Gerald Panana and under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home. Josephine Walking Night was born September 22, 1944 to Horace Howling Water, Sr. and Emma Standing Elk in Lame Deer, MT and passed away Wednesday, March 18, 2020 in the Integris Hospice House in Oklahoma City, OK. Josephine was raised in the Hammon and attended Hammon Schools. She helped raise her younger siblings before working in an Elk City Nursing Home. She married Roy Walking Night in 1966 in Taloga, OK. She had a 27 year career serving as the Community Health Representative for the Cheyenne/Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma in District IV. She is a member of the Hammon Indian Baptist Church; she enjoyed being outdoors, hand word, sewing, beading, and babysitting. She is preceded in death by her husband, son, George Walking Night, brothers, James Howling Water, Roy Howling Water, Jesse Howling Water, Jerome Howling Water, sister, Eula Howling Water, Dorothy Good Blanket, Sue Wilson, Katy Medicine Bull. She is survived by a daughter, Elizabeth Sue Birds Head, Hammon, OK and brother, Hoarce Howling Water, Sr. and wife, Stacy, El Reno, OK. She is also survived by three grandchildren, Jocinda Walking night, Geoffrey Birds Head, Doyle Birds Head and four great-grandchildren, Omri, Emrik, Arli Rhoads and Kiari Birds Head.