Robert Pretty Boy

Funeral services for Robert Pretty Boy, 77, of Eagle Butte, will be at 11:00 am (MT), Monday, August 18, 2025, at St. John's Episcopal Church in Eagle Butte. Burial will follow at the St. Paul's Cemetery in LaPlante. Robert passed away on August 8, 2025, at his home in Eagle Butte.

Robert Roy Pretty Boy was born on November 21, 1947 to Myrtle Yellow Hawk and Archie Pretty Boy. He attended schools at the Old Agency, St. Joe's in Chamberlain, then came back to Eagle Butte and graduated High School in 1967.

In 1968 Bob enlisted in the army and would leave for Vietnam, he was honorably discharged in 1972. That same year Bob was married to Pamela Snyder and to this union came one daughter, Tanya Marie Pretty Boy.

Bob held various jobs, he spoke of Law Enforcement, working with handicapped children, working at the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Telephone, and at the Comprehensive Work Therapy Building. In his later years Bob became our taco stand builder. Every year we sold tacos during the CRST Labor Day celebration. Besides putting up the stand Bob made chili, salsa and cooked all the meat we would use. Bob's chili and our mothers frybread – We had people come back every year to eat that combo.

He would visit and reminisce about our "taco days", he would smile and remember the laughing and joking, we were all together; brothers, sisters, cousins, yet there was sadness behind that smile and what he spoke of were bittersweet memories; our mom was in all those stories.

We lost so many people through the years, but losing our mother was devastating for Bob, being the oldest. Bob is now rejoicing with our mother and the rest of the family.

Bob is survived by his brother Corbin B. LeBeau, sisters Karen J. LeBeau-Garreau (Jeff) & Wendy B. LeBeau (Terry O'Neal).

He is preceded in death by his daughter Tanya M. Pretty Boy, sisters Lillian LeBeau-Chase, Lavera LeBeau-Levell, Francine LeBeau-Iron Wing, Colette LeBeau-Iron Hawk, brothers Dyle LeBeau, Lyle LeBeau, Fain LeBeau, Kevin LeBeau, Barrend LaBeau, his father, Archie Pretty Boy, his mother and stepfather, Myrtle Yellow Hawk-LeBeau and Phillip LeBeau.

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