Floyd Horn

LODGE GRASS - Fredlyn Floyd Horn, 90, of Lodge Grass, peacefully passed away on Friday, June 21, 2025 at the Crow/Northern Cheyenne Hospital in Crow Agency, MT. Floyd was a faithful member of the Our Lady of Loretto Catholic Church. He is a member of the Greasy Mouth Clan and child of Greasy Mouth. His parents brought him up to live in the Apsaaloke traditional ways respecting traditional family values. They addressed him as a Duup Chiikua (Sweet Bone Marrow) Growing up and the family, friends and community all knew him by that name. As an adult his name was changed to Báachiia hawáte (Lone Pine Tree). 

Báachiia hawáte (Lone Pine Tree) was born on November 11, 1934, in Crow Agency, the son of Samuel and Mary Ann Bear Below-Horn. 

Floyd grew up at the Horn family homestead his father built in Alatsha Binaatee/Where the Garden Grows with No Water with his parents Samuel Horn and Mary Ann Bear Below - Horn with his siblings, Forest, Joan Horn and Jim Other Bull. Floyd was a toddler when his mother became ill and was hospitalized. His father and siblings looked after him until his mother was well enough to come home. Floyd grew up in a family that had a strong family bond that took care of each other dearly. Floyd’s parents provided all the necessities of their time such as growing and harvesting food from the garden, meat from the cows they own, father’s hunting, horses to ride, wagon and team of horses for traveling, picking berries, Model-T for transportation on the road. Floyd credits his long life to his parents’ upbringing. A healthy environment in which he and his siblings lacked nothing. Floyd would remember times when families would come to the top ridge of the Horn allotment and yell to his father that they had arrived for a visit in which his father would hook up the team of horses to the wagon and Floyd and his siblings would often ride with their dad over the river crossing to pick up their visitors. The visiting families would enjoy his mother’s cooking and canning of meat and vegetables. The visits would sometimes last into the night and families would end up staying for a few days. Floyd grew up with a love of riding horses, often riding out in the country with the neighbors’ kids. Floyd would come home when he was hungry and his mother would bring his plate to him so that he could eat while he sat on his horse.When Floyd was old enough, his father bought him a guitar and he taught himself how to play. He would play his guitar for his family and visitors. Floyd grew up learning the cowboy lifestyle of training horses and raising cattle. He was often requested by ranchers up No Water & Rotten Grass areas to help out in their ranching duties. Floyd travelled to rodeos and team roped with his brother, Forest, and nephews, Danny and Clayton, and many other family members and friends, Joe and Benedict Blane, Lawrence Plenty Hawk, Calvin Bell Rock, Lloyd Pickett, and Fred Bird Hat. 

When Floyd attended schools he had the gift of making friends and would often bring them home. His mother would welcome them with open arms. She treated them like her own and some of them grew up with the Horn family.

He was an avid handgamer and loved playing on the No Water team. He won best guesser several times during the Crow handgame tournament. 

Floyd managed the families land and was very successful. He consolidated the land for the famly ranch so that it would be easier to manage the cattle.. He made sure all the family leases were current and kept the family in compliance with the BIA regulations. Floyd fought for the water rights of the family and made sure the claim for senior water fights were rights were filed for the family allotments. He joined the fight to claim senior water rights for the Crow Tribe and was a strong advocate for justice for all the Crow people. 

Floyd married the late Ada Williamson and the couple made their home in Lodge Grass, MT. 

Preceded in death his parents Sam and Mary, wife, Ada, daughter Susan Horn, brothers Forest Horn, Harry Wallace, Lawrence Plenty Hawk and Jim Other Bull; sisters Joan Horn, Joann Big Medicine and Gretchen Bear Below, and his beloved uncle Caleb Plain Bull. 

Survivors include son, Christopher (Danette) Horn; daughter, Loretta (Matthew Stevens) Birdinground, grandsons: Cody Reece, Harvey “Pokey” Wallace, Hennessy  Dan Floyd Horn, Jesse Shane, Callan and Zachary Cummins; Special Grandnephew Jeff (Valarie) Packsthehat; Granddaughters, Genua, Stina, Tionna, Mary Ann, and Tristy; Sister Elvina (Lloyd) Pickett and Darleen Bunny Wallace; adopted brother Rick Mullenberg; nephews; Samuel (Darla) Horn and Danny (Letha) GunShows, Eddie (Lori) Big Medicine, Morton (Cedar) Big Medicine and Raynard Other Bull; nieces, Joanie (Frank) Rowland, Rhonda (Larry) Hogan, Trivian (Jeff) Rides The Bear, Rosaline Old Bear and Rebecca Stops, Blanche Turnsback; his extended families, Little Nest, Driftwood, decedents of Dianne Horn (Blaine, Stewart, Small, Old Elk, Bull Tail, Packsthehat,

Whiteman), Plain Bull, Bends, Stops, Bear Below, Shaeffer, White Hip, Well Known, Descendants of She Kills from North Dakota, Sara Pease family and the Horn family from Idaho. 

Rosary will be recited at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, June 24, at the Bullis Funeral Chapel. Funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. on Wednesday June 25, 2025 at the Lodge Grass Our Lady of Loretto Catholic Church. Interment will follow in the Lodge Grass Cemetery. Bullis Mortuary of Hardin has been entrusted with the arrangements.

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