Freda Sue Heap-of-Birds

Funeral services for Freda Sue Heap-of-Birds, 65, of Clinton, will be at 1 p.m. Friday in the Cheyenne-Arapaho Community Building west of Lucky Star Casino, officiated by Gerald Panana and Gerald Watson.

A traditional Indian wake service will be from 7 until 10 p.m. Thursday in the C-A Community Building in Clinton.

Mrs. Heap-of-Birds died Monday, July 6, 2015, in the Clinton Regional Hospital. She was born May 28, 1950, to Augustine Tenorio and Lena Belle Gould Tenorio.

She was raised in Clinton and attended the Sequoyah Boarding School at Tahlequah before continuing her education by attending beauty college and working as a cosmetologist.

She later attended a police academy in eastern Oklahoma and worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She had worked for the Lucky Star Casino for the past several years in numerous departments.

She was a member of the Indian Baptist Church in Weatherford and of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.

Preceding her in death were her husband; her parents; three sisters, Elaine Henry, Laura Curtis and Martina Standing Water; and a brother, Raymond Standingwater.

Survivors include a daughter, Margina Ternorio, and a son, Christopher Thunderbull, both of Clinton; two sisters, Brenda Riggs and Sammy Curtis, both of Clinton; two brothers, Alfred Tenorio, of Amarillo, Texas, and Gilbert Curtis Sr., of Clinton; an adopted sister, Debra Sam, of Clinton; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren with one on the way.

Burial will conclude in the Colony Indian Cemetery under the direction of Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home of Clinton.