Carmella Kay Stump Not Afraid went home to be with Creator March 20, 2017 due to cancer.  Wake services will begin on Tuesday, March 21, 2017, and will continue until her funeral service, which will be at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 23, 2017, all at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church.  Burial will follow in the Rocky Boy Cemetery.  Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.

Mimi was born on July 25, 1947, to Patrick and Julia (Wolf Walker) Stump in Rocky Boy, where she lived for all her childhood and was raised.  When she got older, her dad, brothers, and sisters moved to Billings, where it became home for her.  Her family and her also spent some time living in Reno, NV.  She was the second oldest of her siblings.  She loved being with her family, enjoyed her brothers and sisters' company.  Carmella was a kind-hearted lady, very generous and caring to everyone.  She was always there to help, she had the biggest heart full of love.  We all enjoyed her company, she loved to laugh about the good memories that were made.  When she was younger, her mother taught her how to bead, which she loved to do, and she was very good at.  She showed us, the younger generation, our Chippewa-Cree culture ways, from what was wrong to right.  She married Eldon Not Afraid, sr. from Crow Agency, MT, when she was in her twenties, later divorced.  They had their first daughter, Julie Ann Not Afraid, who was her only child, she has three daughters of her own, Shiree, Daisy & Whitney.  Later in life, Carmella took her oldest granddaughter Shiree as her own & raised her.  She now has six great-grandchildren that she loves with all her heart and are very precious to her.  She loved spending time with them, they kept her busy and she enjoyed every minute with them.  Her great-grandchildren loved her very much, they always wanted to spend time with her.

She is survived by her daughter, Julie (Danny Three Irons) Not Afraid; granddaughters, Shiree (Tyrone) Martinez, Sr., Daisy (Francisco Maldonado) & Whitney Three Irons of Billings, MT; six great-grandchildren; brothers, Glen (Betty) Stump of Gallup, NM, and Father Pete Guthneck of Rocky Boy, MT; sisters, Kathleen (Ed Spotted Eagle) Goggles of Rocky Boy, MT, Valeria (McKinley) Iron, Jobyna Stump of Billings, MT, and Ethelene Stump of Lame Deer, MT; and numerous beloved aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, and other extended family and friends.

Carmella is preceded in death by her parents, Patrick and Julia Stump; granddaughter, Mary Margaret St. Pierre; brothers, Darrell Stump, Leon Stump, Sr., and Leslie Stump, Sr.; sister, Joyce Stump; nieces, Maryann Stump, Heather Not Afraid, Sonya Sunchild, Ursula Stump, Sylvia Russette, Athena Galbavy, and Cheyenne St. Pierre; her nephew, BJ DeCora; her former husband, Eldon Not Afraid, Sr.; her grandparents, John & Elizabeth Good Runner, and John & Blanket Stump; her uncles, Joe & Johnny Demontiney, Donald Meyers, John, Pete, Donald, Rocky Mountain & Jimmy Stump, Earl Big Bow, and Roddy Sunchild; her aunts Alice Russette, Bernice Russette, Flora Big Knife, Mary Jane, Julia & Margaret Demontiney, Minnie Watson, Queen Anderson, and Hazel and Carol Big Bow; and close relatives, Roger Sr. & Tumsy St. Pierre, Cheeto Russette, Dale & Bobby Wright, Linda Demontiney, John Edwin, Duane & Karen Meyers, Valeria Puga, Alberta & Harriette St. Pierre, Ronnie & Ervin Anderson, and Evelyn Eagleman.