Brenda Lee TopSky-Gardipee, Walking on Sweetgrass Woman - Wi-Kahs-Ki-Pi-Mo-Tew Is-Kew, 54, passed away on April 30, 2014 at Peace Hospice in Great Falls, MT. Wake services will begin at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 1, 2014 at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Rocky Boy. Funeral service will be at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 3, 2014 at the Old Stone Child College gym with Chippewa Cree Tribal Elders officiating. Holland and Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements and you can express your condolences and memories at www.hollandbonine.com. Brenda was born in Black Foot, ID to Charles and Eliza (Samatt) TopSky on March 13, 1960. She attended school in Blackfoot, ID, and later earned her Bachelor's degree in Human Services at MSU-Northern in Havre, MT. In 1991 she married Rick Gardipee and the couple raised seven children. Brenda was employed as the Chippewa Cree Tribe Child Support Director. Brenda enjoyed beading, reading, watching her grandkids, and watching her son play basketball. She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Eliza TopSky; her brothers Willis Don TopSky and an infant brother; sisters, Shirley Ann TopSky Dixey and Geneva Rose TopSky. Brenda is survived by her husband, Rick Gardipee; daughters, Angel TopSky, Lacey Gardipee, Leilani Gardipee, Jayden Gardipee all of Rocky Boy, MT, and her adopted daughter, Terri Smallboy of Hobbema, Canada; sons, Donny TopSky and Theron Wright of Havre, MT and Randall Gardipee of Rocky Boy; grandchildren, Jermayne Saddler, Neva Wright, Maliyah Gardipee, Tiran, Zade and Emma Zorthian; sisters, Frances TopSky and Elaine TopSky of Rocky Boy; and brothers Lloyd TopSky and Leland TopSky of Rocky Boy.