Edward D. Whiteskunk

Funeral services for Cheyenne Chief Edward D. Whiteskunk , 58, Hammon resident, will be at 1 p.m., today (Saturday) in the A.G. Creach Hammon School Auditorium, officiated by Rev. Ronald Whiteskunk Jr.

A wake service was held Friday evening in the Kiesau Memorial Chapel of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton.

Edward D. White-skunk, “Howling Wolf” (Ho’neohnestoohe) was born Aug. 28, 1956 in Cortez, Colo., the son of Willis and Maude (Whiteshield) Whiteskunk. He died Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City.

Whiteskunk was raised in Hammon and attended most of his schooling there. He transferred to the Institute of the Southern Plains where he graduated from high school.

He continued his education in Newton, Kan. and Provo, Utah. He worked in law enforcement in Hammon as a police officer; for the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal police, as well as serving as an emergency medical technician (EMT) for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Ambulance Service.

He was married to Phyllis Whiteman in 1977.

Preceding him in death were his wife, Phyllis; parents; brothers, Frank, Philemon and Woodrow Whiteskunk, Virgil Swift and Leon Redbone; his paternal grandparents, Charlie Whiteskunk and Josephine Goose; and maternal grandparents, Ben Whiteshield and Nellie Whiteman.

He was a proud member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, and was a Cheyenne Chief. He was active in tribal politics serving on the 32nd and 33rd Cheyenne and Arapaho Business Committees for Cheyenne District 4 for a total of eight years.

Whiteskunk was a member of the Chapel in Cortez, Colo., where he was baptized at the age of eight.

He also was a member of the Bow-String Society Clan.

Survivors include his four children, Susan, David, Michael and Nancy Whiteskunk, all of the home; two sisters, Cynthia Whiteskunk Osage and Viola Hatch; a brother, Willis Todd Whiteskunk; and his two namesakes, Frank Edward Whiteskunk and Abraham Martinez.

Burial will conclude in the Hammon Indian Mennonite Cemetery.