Amy Thompson, 45, of Eagle Butte, passed away Friday, May 9, 2025, at her home.
Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. MDT, Monday, May 19, 2025, at CRST Bingo Hall, Eagle Butte. Burial will
follow in the Congregational Cemetery, Cherry Creek. A wake will be 7:00 p.m., Sunday, May 18, 2025, at the
bingo hall with a procession from the 4-Mile at 4:00 p.m.
Amy, the youngest daughter of Russell and Charlene (Swan) Flying By, was born February 20, 1980, in Rapid
City, SD. She spent her childhood in Rapid City and Cherry Creek before the family settled in Eagle Butte.
Being a self-proclaimed “daddie’s girl”, wherever her dad, Russell, went you could be sure that she was right
beside him. Being the “weird one” she loved school and was involved in Upward Bound and AISES, she would
spend her time with her nose in a book or with her second love, the volleyball court. Upon graduating from
Cheyenne Eagle Butte in 2000, she was accepted and attended South Dakota School of Mines and Technology,
where she would join the sisterhood of Alpha Omega Epsilon where she made many friends.
In 2002 a beautiful baby girl, Braxy Rose AKA “Sica Girl”, would come into her life, and she would come to
love her as her own. She would also meet the man she would later marry. After months and months of talking
and debating she would move down south to Arkansas. In a few months the couple would move back to South
Dakota and would marry a few months later in August of 2004. She would joke that Brax was their “starter
kid”, the one that would show the couple how to be parents one day. The couple was together for over 20 years
and have four very beautiful and smart children: Stacy Kain, Maggie Lou, Russell Charles Lewis, and Fanny
Lois. Amy was a stay-at-home mom where she would spend every day loving and encouraging the kids to be all
that they could be and do anything and everything they could, that all they had to do was put their minds to it.
On May 9, 2025, after battling her medical conditions and pain, her dad Russell, mom Charlene, and baby girl
Conde came to help her on her journey home. She was at home when she passed where she wanted to be, and
although her physical absence leaves a huge hole and indescribable pain right now, we all know she isn’t in pain
anymore and she will always be with us in our hearts.
Amy is survived by her husband Chris; children: Stacy, Maggie, Russell, Fanny, and Brax; sister, Susan
(Tristan) Red Bear; brothers: Chris (Emily) Gayton, Toni Flying By, and Jordan Cass; aunt, Carlene (RB)
Byington and Family; uncles: Russell Benoist and Family, Floyd Stewart and Family, Walt (Lena) Swan Jr. and
Family, Ike Swan, and Glenn Bently and Family; and numerous cousins.
She was preceded in death by her dad, Russell Flying By; mom, Charlene Flying By; baby girl, Conde; aunts:
Deb Douglas, Clorinda Herrold, Cheryl Bently, Menoda Flying By, Cordilia Benoist, and Faye Condon; uncles:
Wilber Flying By, Myron Flying By, and Byron Flying By; and grandparents: Moses and Leona Flying By and
Walt Swan Sr. and Althea Swan.
Luce Funeral Home of Gettysburg has been entrusted with Amy’s arrangements. (www.familyfuneralhome.net)

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