Funeral services for Galen Grassrope, of Lower Brule, SD at 10:00 am Saturday, August 15, 2020 at the Lower Brule Community Center in Lower Brule, SD with burial in the Holy Comforter Episcopal Cemetery at Lower Brule, SD.  Wake services will be Thursday and Friday evening at 7:00 pm at the Lower Brule Community Center in Lower Brule, SD.

Galen Grassrope was born March 3, 1973 to Norma Grassrope and Thomas J. Oldman, Jr. at Chamberlain, SD.  He attended elementary and high school at St. Joseph's Indian School and graduated from Lower Brule High School in Lower Brule, SD.

He attended Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell after high school.  He returned home and worked as a CNA at Mid Dakota Hospital in Chamberlain, a dietician at Sanford, porter at Cedar Shore Resort, and at the Moapa Paiute Travel Plaza.  He then began working for the Lower Brule Tribe in different departments with his most recent job in the CHR Program.

Galen passed away on August 10, 2020 at Sanford Medical Center in Chamberlain at the age of 47 years.  He is survived by his wife Rebecca; special friend Karen Dygert; mother Norma Grassrope; his step dad Richard Goodface; his children Doris Grassrope, Shilea Grassrope, and Zachary Grassrope five brothers Craig Sully Brave Eagle, Joseph Grassrope, Garfield Goodface, Leroy Goodface, and Waylon Oldman; and two sisters Wind Goodface and January Johnson.

Preceding him in death were his father, son Adam White Lightning, sister Davita Grassrope, and maternal and paternal grandparents.