Our beloved Dallas Germaine Eagle Boy, age 59, of Poplar, MT began her journey to the Spirit World, Sunday, November 13th, 2011 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Dallas was born on February 17, 1952, in Poplar, MT to Mabel Eagle Boy and Charles Parshall. She is the granddaughter of Mathew Eagle Boy and Rose No Breast and George Parshall and Ruby White Bear. She grew up in the Mnisda District and attended grade school in Poplar, then finished her high school education in Flandreau, SD. Dallas then ventured to Albuquerque, NM and enrolled in the Optician program at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute.
During her studies at SIPI, Dallas met and married Spencer Teboe. Upon graduation, they moved to Mountain Home AFB, ID, where she managed an optical shop for a short time. Dallas and Spencer relocated to Poplar in 1975 and began their family. They had two daughters, Laura Eagle Boy of Poplar and Raven (Manuel) Lee of Albuquerque, and raised Yolanda Parshall, also of Poplar, as their own.
Dallas had worked briefly at A&S Tribal Industries before spending the majority of her career as the Optician at IHS in Poplar. She had also served on the Board of Education, Montana Drug Task Force, the NFFE Union for IHS, and helped to create a tenant organization that assisted people with their rights within Ft Peck Housing.
In 2002, Dallas returned to SIPI to further her education and graduated once again in the Optics field in 2004. While there, she was a member of the Optics Club and Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, and had achieved Deans List on more than one occasion. Finding employment with Dr Richard Zobel, Optometrist, she remained with his staff until moving back home to Montana in May of 2008. Back in Poplar, Dallas worked with Ft Peck Housing as Occupancy Specialist until she retired in the spring of 2011.
Dallas is preceeded in death by her parents Mabel Eagle Boy and Charles Parshall and also Eugene Sparvier; sisters: Jonita Parshall, Emerald Olney, Perthina Sparvier, and Sandra Adams and her grandson Xavier Lee.
Dallas is survived by her daughters: Laura, Raven, and Yolanda, her grandchildren: Kristin, Nicole, Grayhorse, and Stormy; great grandchildren: Alara, Kadence, and Blake Parshall; her sisters: Verdine (Allen) Russell and Kimberly Sparvier of Poplar, Melissa Parshall of Worthington, MN; two brothers: Joel Sparvier of Seattle, WA and Robin Sparvier of Harlem, MT. Also, her sisters: Grace Pipe of Wolf Point, MT and Theola Fox, Clara Cedar Face, and Jeannie Gonzales of Albuquerque, NM; her son Elijah Roberts of Winnebago, NE, and her daughters: Aerial Carpentier and Tara Young Bear of Poplar. Mentioning also her numerous relatives stemming from the Eagle Boy/No Breast families of Ft Peck and Standing Rock and the Parshall/White Bear Families from Ft Berthold.
Dallas spent the rest of her time here with us, loving and laughing, reading and learning, traveling and visiting, dancing and singing, smiling and helping. She was a very generous, kind, wonderful, and witty woman, who will be greatly and deeply missed by many.
A wake will be held 7 p.m. Friday, November 18 at the Poplar Cultural Center. A funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, November 19 also at the Poplar Cultural Center. Interment will follow at the Chelsea Cemetery in Chelsea, MT.
Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel of Wolf Point has been entrusted with the arrangements.