Dorreen Brown
Dorreen Jo Brown, died Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, at the Poplar Community Hospital.
She was born on April 18, 1963, in Poplar to Thomas Brown Sr. and Alva Bighorn.
She graduated from Brockton High School in May 1981. She played basketball and was MVP for the Lady Brockton Warriors her sophomore year.
She married Richard “Harvey” Campbell Sr. in 1982. They settled in Wolf Point and, to this union, Heather, Richard Jr. and Felisha were born. They later divorced. She married Charles Black Dog in 1996. They had three daughters, Marlana, Marcella and Martina. They lived in Fort Kipp and she would often travel with Charlie and the Black Dog Band and sometimes play tambourine.
After their divorce, Dorreen had a longtime companion, Garrison Canuto. They had a blended family and lived in Williston, N.D., for several years and then finally, Sidney. She enjoyed traveling to New Mexico with Garrison to his family home. They went to the Sturgis Rally in South Dakota every year; this last year being especially memorable because she went on a zipline for the first time.
She was the only girl of four siblings, her brothers, Thomas, Wesley and Troy. Growing up, she often stayed with her grandparents, Alpheus and Josephine Bighorn.
Throughout her life, she held odd jobs — she worked as a firefighter for the Fort Peck Tribes and at fast food restaurants in Williston, but her main job was being a stay-at-home mother.
She liked to camp out at the local pow-wows and enjoyed going to bingo and playing machines with her mother. Holidays were her favorite time because of the large Bighorn family gatherings. She liked to cook and she made the best apple crisp. She enjoyed listening to music and if she liked a song, she would play it on endless repeat.
She was preceded in death by her daughter, Heather Renee.
She is survived by her mother, Alva Bighorn of Brockton; children; son ,Richard Campbell Jr. of Billings; daughters Felisha Crowe of Helena, Marlana, Marcella and Martina Black Dog, both of Poplar; 19 grandchildren; brothers, Thomas Brown, Wesley Brown and Troy Brown, all of Brocktona; and sister, Crystal Brown of Wolf Point.
Her funeral was held Friday, Feb. 12, at the Red Eagle Church in Fort Kipp. Interment followed at Fort Kipp Cemetery. Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel was entrusted with the arrangements.
