Helen Marie Lingle (Hawi nuda Wiya) “Red Moon Woman”, age 64, passed away on April 18, 2021 in Spokane, WA. Helen was born on February 20, 1957 to Stanley William YellowRobe and Mina Rose (Forrest) YellowRobe in Poplar, MT.
Helen was an amazing mother and she an amazing sister and wonderful friend! After her husband passed away, she did everything possible for her children and grandchildren. She always tried to help the best way she could, even if it meant that she would go short she always stood up for the kids and she was always taking a bunch of neighborhood kids to go out fishing. She enjoyed going to Bingo, and visiting with her friends. And she would always stand up for what she believed was right. She worked hard at her education, she was a highly educated woman and always stood her ground when it would come to different things, she wasn’t the type of person to back down or away from anything that would come her way.
Helen had gone to Santa Fe New Mexico Art Institute and then she graduated from Wolf Point High School she had gone to a few different schools. After high school she went to Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute and she also went to Native American Education Service College where she had made the Dean’s list three semesters in a row and graduated. She also went to MSU Northern in Havre, MT and Wolf Point Community College and in Washington State she had graduated from Eastern Washington University with her BA degree. Helen was really artistic and she loved to listen to music and do her charcoal drawings and her oils! She was such an amazing person who cared very deeply about the ones she cared about and would go out of her way to help out. And when Helen received her pellegrin checks from going to college she had put up the arch at King Cemetery she was always keeping the cemetery clean and always cutting down weeds. She sat on Wipco with her brother Fish George Redstone and son Stanley LIngle. Helen had started up an asthma camp, she went around collecting donations and she found asthmatic doctors to be out at the camp, she had started it up with her friend, Noreen Hagenau and her son Man and Mina.
Helen was a woman who believed in the native traditional ways and Helen was an adventurous woman who loved to travel and tried out new things and new places with furry friend, Juneau. She is the most stubborn, loving, beautiful and kind hearted woman I know. She will be missed.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Stanley William and Mina Rose YellowRobe; son Stanley Wilson Lingle; husband Allen Dale Lingle; brothers Alvin YellowRobe, George “Fishy” Redstone; nephews Edison Redstone, Allison Redboy; niece Christina Redboy.
Helen is survived by her daughter Mina Rose Lingle; brother William YellowRobe, Sr.; sisters Karen YellowRobe, Josephine Redstone, Alice Redstone, Mary Redstone, Carol McIntire, Leigh Campbell, Melody Billy; grandchildren Sean and Kayla Lingle.