Lenita René Pretty

On October 24, 2020, Lenita Rene' Divine Goes Ahead Pretty went home to her heavenly Father. She entered into this world on October 25, 1993, to Carlson “Dukey” Goes Ahead and Orvilene “Monk” Rondeaux Monroy. She is the mother of 9 year old MyKynzii Taiyen, 6 year old Vivian Praise and 3 year old Alitheia Denise, whom she loved dearly and cherished. She was named after the late Pastor Lena Mosely and the Rev. Chaunita Holliday, thus her name “Lenita.” She was affectionately called “Marshmallow,” “MaaLita” and “ Baaikdiassaah “ which she thought meant “Wild Horse” for a long time as a little girl when it really meant “Behave.” This brought alot of laughs. Growing up at home the first person her late brother, Adrian, would address with his wake up call was “Lenita Rene' Divine Revelation of Hell Goes Ahead.” For a long time she thought she was adopted and her real parents were Edward “Poison” Jr. and Carol Whiteman. Sometimes she wanted to go see her “Dad'' so they would drop her off at the Whitemans. Her Crow name Ash'itche Xia'saash' (Pretty Lodge Well Known) was given to her by her dad. Lenita was a member of the Big Lodge Clan and a child of the Ties in the Bundle Clan. She attended church at Billings Full Gospel Revival Tabernacle and Pryor Mountain Crow Worship Center. She loved the Lord, liked going to church and revivals and listening to gospel music and was a faithful tither. She was a big help in the churches she attended. Lenita traveled many times to Idabel, Ok, for campmeeting. Lenita graduated 8th grade from Pryor St. Charles Mission School and went to Plenty Coups High School and Kingston High School in Washington and eventually obtained her General Equivalency Diploma (GED) through the high school in 2013. While in grade school, she played volleyball, basketball and cross country and played basketball her freshmen and sophomore years at Plenty Coups High School. She was a Pryor resident most of her life but lived in Kingston, WA, for 3-1/2 years and attended the Mountain Ministries Life Skill Training Center in Rainer, OR, July 2018 and graduated from there July 2019. She was presently residing in Pryor with her Aunty Mom, Rhea Goes Ahead. Lenita was help raised by her grandparents, Sylvester “Cartie” and Ruby Goes Ahead and Aunty Rhea and grew up in her grandparents house alongside her siblings, Judah and Rheanna, and cousins Jaris, Gabrielle, Sidney, Grubbz, and Katelyn Goes Ahead, and Candace and Carlton ‘Cowboy” Roberts, who were more like brothers and sisters and they made many happy memories together. Lenita was taught to drive by her Grandpa Cartie at the age of 11 years old. He found her to be a good driver and would bribe her and her cousin, Jaris, to drive him to Billings to do business and to the movies. While at the movies, Lenita & Jaris would go movie hopping while Grandpa Cartie was sleeping in the theater. LOL! Grandma Ruby trusted her to drive more than her older sister, Rheanna. When she was 10 years old, she proudly announced to her Grandma Ruby and Aunty Rhea, “I cooked supper.” When asked what she cooked, she said “I made Ramen noodles.” She was a Ramen noodles lover all her life! Lenita was also a Los Angeles Laker lover and liked to go swimming, picnic and spent time with her nieces and nephews and loved them dearly. Lenita and her sister, Rheanna, were very close and helped each other with their children. (continued from back) Lenita's first work experience was with the Summer Youth program and held various jobs as a waitress, house cleaner, helping hand at ropings in Silesia and currently working for the Crow Housing Authority as a laborer. Many friends and relatives relied on her for advice and guidance and she was a natural at it. She always had a Bible scripture for everything and they would go away encouraged after talking with her. Lenita had a big heart and she was known for her smile, her friendliness and her hearty laugh. She made friends wherever she went. Being a girl dad, her father would take her along to visit relatives and friends when she was young and it helped her to know a lot of her relatives. She acquired a close circle of friends since childhood that she took time to check in on even after growing up and going their separate ways. These include her childhood best friends, Courtney Old Crow, Whitnii White, Trisha Little Light, Jerome Moccasin, Marcus Spotted Bear, Leo Goes Ahead, Dalson Blaine, Alyssa Hill, Darrelyn Left Hand and Alex Aragon and lifelong friends, Bryce and Shayla DeCouteau, Clarice Demontiney, Alejandra Vazquez, Haylee Jo Pretty Weasel, Mariah Volk, Crystal Goes Ahead, Hillary Don't Mix, Leo Monroy and Kelcie Franklin of Idabel, OK. Her “Ride or Die/ PIC” Joey Goes Ahead, Mary Joedda Plainfeather, Rheanna Goes Ahead and Kevin Yazzie. Lenita was preceded in death by grandparents, Sylvester “Cartie” and Ruby Iron Goes Ahead, Orville Rondeaux, and Betty Bravo Caufield; big brothers, Adrian and Falon Goes Ahead Pretty; sister, Shiela Rondeaux; and uncles, Myron and Elias Goes Ahead, Sr. Lenita is survived by her three daughters; parents, Carlson (Ginger) Goes Ahead and Orvilene (Richard) Monroy; siblings, Charlie Rondeaux, Zarah, Judah and Rheanna Goes Ahead; step siblings, Makayla and Melina Weaselboy, Poncho, Leo, Christian, Samantha and Catherine Monroy and Kyra Turnsplenty; nephews, Tuffy and Tyson Rondeaux, KeShawn Baby Cartie Son Son Goes Ahead Pretty, Alexander Bell, Brayden and Adrian Yazzie, Jonaleah's boys-Zane, Fabian and Emerson, Ashley Caufield's boys-Justice, Winston and Memory, Cyrus and Roddy Caufield and Ryder; nieces, Levonne Ruby Jean Goes Ahead Pretty, Arabella, Cereignity, Anastasia and KaTori Yazzie, Jazmine Goes Ahead, Jacquelyn Monroy, Alayna and Alvina Three Irons, Olivia Reyna and Kaycee Costa; uncles, Dana (Karen) Goes Ahead, Rodney Rondeaux and Jim Boy Tushka; aunts, Marilyn (Rev. Jay) Simpson, Aunty Mom Rev. Rhea Goes Ahead, Mary Liz Rondeau, Rhonda and Robin Caufield and the four Tushka sisters; grandparents, Agnes (Larry) Pretty Weasel, Regina Goes Ahead, Charlene Laverdure and Tela Rondeaux; great grandfather, John Pretty on Top; adored cousins, Lachelle and Joel (Kim) Simpson, Londa Shane, Christian (Marty) Lopez, Crystal and Sunny Berg, Ashley Caufield, Brittany Four Stars, Paradise Bleu, Jonalea, Cecelia and Mary Plainfeather and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews too many to name; godparents, Beulah “Auntie Beulahful” Goes Ahead and the late Bruce Spotted Bear, Jr. Special friends she considered family, Pastor Wayne JR and Mia Boyd, of Keystone, SD, who are the adopted parents of her oldest daughter, MyKynzii, and Mike and Mavis Kloppel, who loved her like a daughter. Extended relatives are Goes Ahead, De Crane, Rondeaux, Caufield, Iron, Walks Over Ice, Brass, Black Hawk, Otter Stays in Water, Yellowmule, Hunts the Arrow, Red Wolf, Plainbull, Lion Shows, Rock Above, Big Hail, Old Crane, Wall, House, Big Medicine, Jefferson, Charges Strong-Wilson, Morrison, Hugs, Big Lake, Small, One Goose, Pretty on Top, Bravo, Door, Big Shoulder, Holds the Enemy , Tushka and Plenty Hawk. Please forgive us if we forgot anyone in our time of grief.