Funeral Services for Michelle DeMarrias, 51, of Eagle Butte, SD, are 10AM-MST, Tuesday, June 23, 2015, at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Promise, SD. Burial at St. Mary's Episcopal Cemetery in Promise under the direction of the Kesling Funeral Home of Mobridge, SD. Wake processional will meet at the 4-mile junction outside of Eagle Butte at 4PM-MST, Sunday, June 21, 2015, with a prayer service at 7PM at St. John's Episcopal in Eagle Butte. Second wake will leave Eagle Butte at 12PM-MST, Monday, June 22, 2015, and visitation is 1PM-MST at St. Mary's with a prayer service at 7PM.

Michelle DeVonne DeMarrias was born at Doctor's Hospital in Los Angeles, California at 12:30 a.m. on October 24, 1963. Her mother is Carrie Jewett-Fasthorse and her father was the late Earl DeMarrias, Jr. Her other father who accepted her as his daughter and raised her is Fred L. Fasthorse.

Michelle lived most of her young life in Los Angeles, California and Minneapolis, MN with occasional visits back to Promise, SD during the summers. She attended Head Start and part of elementary school in Minneapolis, MN and Los Angeles, CA. When the family returned to South Dakota in 1970 she continued elementary school there. She went to Junior High at Cheyenne-Eagle Butte and part of High School there also. She attended Flandreau Indian School and graduated from there in 1982. In high school she played volleyball, basketball and after high school, she played softball. She showed her son, nieces, nephews & grandchildren how to play basketball because she loved them dearly and the sport so very much. So much so that she would play on basketball league nights very often.

She went to the United Tribal Technical College and graduated with honors, obtaining a degree in Business Administration. She worked with the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in her early twenties as a Rehab-Repayment Clerk in the Accounting Dept. In the early 1990s she met and married Robert Quick Bear, Sr. To this union a son was born and they named him Dominique Quick Bear. Michelle was a very kind-hearted, generous and caring person who loved to laugh. Many of her family and friends will tell you she had a good sense of humor. She would help anyone if she had the wherewithal to do so. She loved her relatives so dearly and would go out of her way to help them if asked. She may have been over-protective of family & friends because of her love for them, but her intentions were always good.

She is survived by her son Dominique (Lisa) Quick Bear, parents Carrie Jewett-Fasthorse & Fred L. Fasthorse, brothers; Paul Fasthorse & Chandler DeMarrias, one sister Renee (Manny) Fasthorse-Iron Hawk. Her maternal first cousins are; Patti Hall-Cadott, Annie Hall-Walker, Steve (Agnieszka) Jewett, Michael Jewett, Roger (Mary) Jewett, Waldon (Yogi) Jewett, Colleen Jewett-Edelman, Nina Jewett-Schumacher, Jennifer (Ron) Jewett-Martel, Joseph Jewett, Joanne (Ira) Towery-Briggs, Sonny Towery, Greg (Char) Towery, Clark Towery, Gail High Eagle-Kauhola, Patty Doyle, Shanice Crawford & Desiree DeLeon. Also, numerous nieces & nephews that she loved dearly.

She is preceded in death by her father Earl, Jr., her paternal grandparents; Earl, Sr. & Louise DeMarrias, numerous paternal aunts, uncles & cousins, her maternal grandparents; Joseph & Agnes Jewett, maternal Aunt Fern Walters, maternal Uncle Melvin Jewett, maternal Aunt Lucille Towery & Uncle James Towery, cousin Barbara Towery-Blue Coat, former husband Zane White Eagle.