Gregory Hogan, Sr.

Gregory Hogan, Sr. passed on July 28th, 2024. He was born to George Hogan, III and Bertha (Soontay) Hogan on September 29th, 1956 in Crow Agency. Greg was given the name Iisashpite Shiile (Yellow Rabbit) by his grandfather, George II. Later it was changed to Deaxkáash Ittāche Baatcháache (Great Lone Eagle) by Mabel PrettyOnTop during his Army years.

He attended grade school in Crow Agency, Hardin and St. Xaviers Mission. He went to St. Lawrence prep-school in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and later attended Lodge Grass High School.

Greg joined the Army Reserve from 1976 to 1978 and went into Active Duty from 1978 to 1984. He returned to the reservation and worked for the BIA as a police officer and detention officer for 4 years, and later started with the IHS as a maintenance worker. He also worked as an assistant manager for the Little Horn Casino and Awekulawaache Nursing Home prior to his illness.

Greg later married Charlene and made their home in Hardin, Montana. He was a loving husband and grandpa/dad helping Charlene raise Lucia, Dewayne and her 12 other grandchildren. He was always cheering them on for any activities they did. Greg had the privilege in naming their granddaughter Jazmine Honor Rain. Greg loved and adored Jazmine like his own, spoiling her. You would sometimes find them both sitting watching cartoons in the bedroom.

Greg is a descendent of Pierre du Chien, Crow Scout Goes Ahead and Pretty Shield of the Crow Tribe. On his maternal side he is a descendent of Geronimo of the Chiraculla Apache, San Carlos; Lone Wolf (1st) of the Kiowa Tribe; and Old Man Paddy, who was a Mexican captive of the Commache sold to the Kiowa, he married a Kiowa woman and became a wealthy spokesman and leader of the Kiowa.

Greg is preceded in death by: his parents; his aunts and uncles, Emma Yellowmule, Evelyn Bear Ground, Lloyd Hogan, Sr. and Ethelene Stevenson; his sons, Merlyn Jay, Allen Howard and Norris (Little Light) Hogan; his grand-children, Obediah Rowland and Jerome He Does It.

Survivors include; uncles, Ellis Knows His Gun and Lawrence Wilson; aunts, Mardell Plain Feather, Mary Elizabeth Wallace, Mary Knows His Gun, Ardith Hogan, Beverly Wilson and Pauley Wilson; siblings, Linda (Tom) Little Owl, Howard (Janet) Hogan, Nettie (Wilbur) Kinard, Georgette (Sam) Boggio and Charissa Hogan; children, Greg Jr. (Erliss) Hogan, Bertha Rose Hogan, Lucille (Jerry) Pease, Allyn (Wamblee) Rowland, Jacie (Darrelyn) Hogan, and God-child Kateri Hogan; and all of his 34 grand-children and great-grand children.

His extended family include the Wilson, Reed, Knows His Gun, Spang, Clawson, Scott, Old Horn, Yellowtail, Whiteman Runs Him, Medicine Crow, Takes Gun, Harris, and the Left Hand family of Canada, Cosedo Mary Pewo, Sandavol, Soontay, Klinekole, Attocknie, Ware, Tarsah, Dombeo (Thom Baht) and Black Bear of Oklahoma and the Bernice Key family of San Carlos, Arizona.

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