Susan Whiteskunk

Gravesides Services for Susan Whiteskunk, 42,Hammon resident, will be held 1:00 P.M., Wednesday, February 3, 2021 in the Hammon Indian Cemetery officiated by Rev. Gerald Panana and under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home. A Come and Go Wake Service will be held 6:00 till 8:00 P.M., Tuesday, February 2, 2021 in the Kiesau Memorial Chapel. Susan Diane Whiteskunk (Happy Woman “Woo-Shii”) was born October 24, 1978 to Edward Whiteskunk and Phyllis Whiteman in Clinton, Oklahoma and passed away Sunday, January 24, 2021 in her Hammon home. Susan was raised in Hammon and graduated from Hammon High School in 1997. In 2007 she continued her education at the Burns Flat Vocational-Technology Center and received her credentials in Business Technology. She soon accepted employment with the Great Plains Regional Medical Center in Elk City and worked there about nine years. In 2017 she gained employment as a cashier at the Cheyenne/Arapaho Tribes C-Store in Hammon. Most recently she was employed with the Cheyenne/Arapaho Tribes working for the Cheyenne District IV. So faced several trials which would have broken anybody else, she exercised defiance in the face of adversity. Susan fully lived up to her Cheyenne name “Happy Woman. She was never defeated in life, or in death. In her free time she loved nothing more than making memories with friends and loved ones. She was preceded in death by her parents, her paternal grandparents, Willis Whiteskunk and Maude (Whiteshield) Whiteskunk; her maternal grandparents, Roy Whiteman and Bertha (Orange) Whiteman. She is survived by two daughters, Jordyn Whiteskunk, Elk City, OK and Jalisa Blackwolf, El Reno, OK; three sons, Jadyn Sankey, Hammon, OK, James Blackwolf and Jonas Blackwolf, Jr., both of El Reno; two grandchildren, Kasey Whiteskunk, Hammon and Kadyn Whiteskunk, Clinton; two brothers, David and Michael Whiteskunk, both of Hammon; sister, Nancy Whiteskunk, Elk City; Aunt, Nancy (Whiteman) Prairie Chief, Ignacio, CO and Uncle, Victor Orange, El Reno. She is also survived by seven nieces and five nephews and her best friend, Kyle Orange, Sr.