Blaine “Bean” Lee White, I

Blaine “Bean” Lee White, I, 25, of Redby, Minnesota died, Sunday, August 7, 2005 at Redlake Indian Hospital in Redlake, Minnesota.

Cease Family Funeral Home of Blackduck assisted the family with arrangements.

Traditional Indian services will be held at 2:00 P.M., Thursday, August 11, 2005 at the Redby Community Center in Redby, Minnesota with Spiritual leader Steve Jackson officiating.  A wake will begin on Wednesday at 3:00 P.M. the Redby Community Center and will continue until the services.  Burial will be at the Family Burial Grounds in Ponemah, Minnesota.

Active casketbearers will be Ira Schoenborn, George Schoenborn, Mark Sigana, Orville White Sr., Randy Atkinson, and Ralph White.

Honorary Casketbearers will be Ron Kingbrid, Jon Parker, Sr., Frank Strong, Jr., Darren Strong, Harlan Kingbird, and Robert Parker, Jr.

He was born on November 1, 1979 at Redlake, Minnesota the son of Allen Kingbird and Peggy (White) Kingbird. He attended Redlake High School and Flandreau Boarding School.  He worked at the Redby Store and as a chef at numerous Casinos.  He liked listening to music, talking on the phone and visiting with family and friends.  He loved spending time with his two children whom he had raised with his mother, Peggy K.B. and father, Allen Kingbird since both were babies

He is survived by his parents Allen and Peggy Kingbird; his children, Blaine White, II., and Tia Andrea White both of Redby; special friend Tristin Stillday of Ponemah; grandmother, Carol White of Bemidji; grandfather, Calvin Kingbird of Ponemah; brothers, Roy (Carlene) White of Redlake, Christopher (Debbie) White of Redby, and Jonathan (Linda) Kingbird of Warroad; one niece and two nephews. 

He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Ralph White; grandmother, Cecelia Kingbird; one uncle and one aunt.