Nicole Lynn Small passed away on January 20, 2019 in Billings, MT. She was born on a cold spring day on March 28, 1985 in Poplar, MT. The day she was born was one of the biggest blizzards we had seen for awhile. The tribes, IHS and many businesses were shut down that day.
Her parents Jerry and Arlene Small got stuck going to the hospital and had to walk 2 blocks to get a ride to the hospital in a Police 4-wheeler. Nicole was anxious to be born and came a couple hours later.
Nicole traveled with her family to the Flathead Reservation and she attended school there for 3 years while her parents attended Salish Kootenai College. She also moved with her family to Gallup, New Mexico and Bethel, Alaska while her mother was a nurse there.
When she was very little, Nicole called herself “Kiki Mall”. She was a very loving and generous girl who liked to tease and have fun.
She met Emery Good Bird when she was 20 years old and they had a son Marques Griffin Small. Four years later she met William Beaudry III and they had two sons, Liddell and Wade. Three years later she met Tom Flynn and she gave birth to Brandon Small.
Nicole graduated from the 8th grade at Brockton Jr. High, where she was a cheerleader and later passed her GED on the first try. She attended FPCC for awhile and enjoyed the computer classes. She enjoyed listening to music and hanging out with her friends and baking cakes with her mom. She loved her mom’s homemade tacos, rocky road ice cream and Oreos. She also loved to eat deer steaks with her dad and son Marques.
She recently went hunting with her dad and Marques and was proud of her son killing a buck on the first shot. She didn’t even mind that they got stuck for two hours while her dad shoveled them out. She was the phone wither mom giving a progress report.
Nicole did things her way and had a mind of her own, but always loved her family.
She was preceded in death by her grandparents Pearl and Clarence “Tige” MacDonald, Norma and Chuck Plant and grandfather Pete Small; cousins Bobby MacDonald, Leo Saddleback, Andrew Lamb, Jeremiah Pipe, Horace Pipe; uncles Chuck Plant, Kevin Small; aunties Janice “Sugar” Collins and Donna Angstrom, Colleen Kirn.
She is survived by her parents Jerry and Arlene Small; sons Marques, Liddell, Wade and Brandon Small; brothers Terrell Sutherland and his wife, children Janea, Tyson, Chanel and Baby, Mike Headdress, Tony Headdress, Christopher (Olivia) Headdress; uncle Ray Lamb, Clarence MacDonald, Jr., Jen MacDonald, Linda Savior, Alvin Savoir, Jr., Frank (Connie) MacDonald, Jim (Penny) MacDonald; aunt Debbie Pipe and children Amanda, Horace, Jared, Heather, Jessica and Jake; nieces and nephews Seth Headdress, Louden and Ariel Headdress, Finesse, Essence and Valkerie Headdress, Cru Headdress and Jayden Headdress, cousin Pearlie MacDonald and her close friend William Red Star and the many others lives she touched.
We are going to miss our Nick coming home late at night or early in the morning. We would know she was here when she was laughing and being loud with her boys! No more suffering here anymore my girl! See you later when we meet in paradise with our Lord Jesus. See you later Puddytat!