Jeffrey Ricker

Jeffrey Allen Ricker, Wiyaka Hanska Najin, Tall Standing Feather, 53, of Wolf Point, died June 29, 2025.

He was born April 29, 1972, in Portland, Ore., to Ronald and Katherine (Riley) Ricker. He was raised in Portland along with his six siblings, known as “The Ricker 7.” During his childhood days spent in St. Johns, he could be found cruising the neighborhood on his bicycle with his brothers, sneaking into Blazer games with his best friend Ty, learning new wrestling moves from his big brother and practicing those moves on his younger siblings.

He moved to Wolf Point in the summer of 1988, where he began work at Buttreys Foods. It was here where he met Cody Reum, whom he married in the summer of 1992. From this union, they welcomed Courtney, Tyler, Brandon, Spencer and Cassandra. During this 23-year marriage, he formed a lifelong family with the Reums, who notoriously nicknamed him “Feffy” and with whom he enjoyed working, joking, 4-wheeling and riding horses.

He married Janette Whitehawk in the winter of 2014 and remained married until her death in 2022. From this 8-year union, he gained another daughter, Sheray.

His passion for fixing things began at a young age and continued throughout his life. He became a talented and skilled mechanic, dedicating most of his time to getting his hands dirty working at a multitude of automotive shops or helping friends and family repair vehicles in his free time. Over the past decade, he developed another family with the men he laughed and worked with at Northern Prairie Auto Sales.

Thinking about him, it’s hard not to hear the heavy metal and rock music that was his world. If he wasn’t