Valeria Anne "Pommy" Stump Iron, 66 passed away peacefully on January 15, 2021 surrounded by her husband and family.  Wake services will begin at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 17, 2021, and will continue until her funeral service, which will be at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, January 18, 2021, all at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church.  Burial will follow in the Rocky Boy Cemetery.  Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.

She was born on April 11, 1954 to the late Patrick & Julia (Wolfwalker) Stump on the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. She was known as "Pommy".  In her late twenties, she moved to Billings, MT. This is where she met the love of her life, McKinley Iron, Jr. She and her husband made Billings, MT their home for their two children. She and her husband made sure their doors were open to all their families and made them all feel welcomed. She raised many nieces and nephews as her own. Pommy was always there for her sisters, brothers, and relatives. She made sure they were all taken care of and had a place to stay. She brought all her family together during the holidays and birthdays. She made sure her cooking was perfect and that everything was set up nice. Pommy made sure all her nieces learned from her cooking and how to be clean. She loved to do beadwork and she made a full beaded buckskin dress for herself. She even made a jingle dress outfit for her 1 ^st born granddaughter Octavia Rose Gibson. She always called Octavia her Princess and baby. She was blessed with 9 grandchildren which includes 2 sets of twins who she loved dearly. She loved those casinos, pow wows and Indian Relays. She was a homemaker while her husband worked to provide for them. She always had a smile and like to laugh around. Pommy was the matriarch for all her siblings, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

She leaves behind her husband: McKinley Iron, Jr.; daughter, Ashley (John) Gun Shows; son, Colen (Lisa) Gibson; sisters, Jobyna Stump of Billings, Ethelene Stump of Lame Deer, Betty Stump of Gallup, New Mexico, Janice Stump of Reno, Nevada; brother, Father Pete Guthneck of Box Elder; grandchildren, Kijah, Aakylee, and twin girls Laniyah and Aaliyah Gun Shows, Octavia, Camille, Alejandra, and twin boys Desmond and Diego Gibson; nieces whom she helped raise as her own, Deidhra Hill, Julia Stump, Julie (Danny) Three Irons, Vilene (Lonni) Not Afraid, and Misty (Levi) Beaumont all of Billings, and Janet (Paul) Chase of Havre; nephews, Vidal Not Afraid Jr. of Billings, and Huck Sun Child of Rocky Boy, Leon Stump Jr., Toby Stump, Jamie Stump, and Lori Chasing Crow of Reno, NV, Glenna Stump, Deborah Stump, and her many granddaughters of New Mexico, Darelle Stump, Sean Stump, Leslie Stump Jr., and Cree Stump.  She loved her oldest granddaughters and their company, Octavia, Kijah, Shiree (Tyrone) Martinez Sr., Daisy and Whitney Three Irons of Billings, MT., and many great grandchildren.

Valeria was preceded in death by her parents, Patrick and Julia Stump; granddaughter, Mary Margaret St. Pierre; brothers, Darrell Stump, Leon Stump, Sr., Glenn Stump, and Leslie Stum,p Sr.; sisters, Joyce Stump, Kathleen Goggles, and Carmella Not Afraid; nieces, Maryann Stump, Heather Not Afraid, Sonya Sunchild, Ursula Stump, Sylvia Russette, Athena Galbavy, and Cheyenne St. Pierre; nephew, B.J. DeCora.; granddaughters, Donita Bell and Shields Wilson; grandparents, John and Elizabeth Good Runner and John and Blanket Stump; uncles, Joe and Johnny Demontiney, Donald Meyers, John, Pete, Donald, and Rocky Mountain, and Jimmy Stump, Earl Big Bow, Roddy Sunchild, Gilbert and John G. Meyers; aunts, Alice Russette, Bernice Russette, Flora Big Knife, Mary Jane, Julia and Margaret Demontiney, Minnie Watson, Queen Anderson, and Hazel and Carol Big Bow; and close relatives, Roger Sr. and Tumsy St. Pierre, Cheeto Russette, Dale and Bobby Wright, Linda Demontiney, John Edwin, Duane and Karen Meyers, Valeria Puga, Alberta and Harriette St. Pierre, Ronnie and Ervin Anderson, and Evelyn Eagleman. If we have forgotten anyone, please accept our apologies as our family is large.