May 6, 1958 - September 11, 2026_______________________________________
Jody Faye LeCompte-Garrison of Albuquerque, NM passed away on September 11, 2026.
Jody was born May 6, 1958, in Gettysburg to Gordon Vincent LeCompte and Patricia Katherine Lafferty of Eagle Butte. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, she grew up on the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation and attended Cheyenne-Eagle Butte School.
It was there that she met her high school sweetheart, Gary Evan Garrison. They graduated from C-EB in 1976. Jody went on to attend the University of South Dakota.
She and Gary married August 12, 1977, in Rapid City.
Their daughter, Yvette Marie, was born in 1978 in Eagle Butte, followed by Zachary Evan in 1989 in Yankton and Samuel Alexander in 1996 in Lincoln, NE.
In Albuquerque, Jody became GED Coordinator at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute.
When Gary accepted a job in Washington, DC, in 1999 Jody began what became a 25-year federal career with Indian Affairs. She worked directly with tribes and tribal organizations throughout Indian Country, helping create training and employment opportunities for Native people. Jody finished her federal career as a grants manager for the Bureau of Indian Education and retired on December 15, 2024.
Jody was preceded in death by her parents.
She is survived by Gary Garrison; her children: Yvette Marie (Mike) Rock of Pittsburgh, PA, Zachary Evan Garrison and Samuel Alexander Garrison, both of Albuquerque; her grandson, Coltyn Jameson Garrison of Albuquerque; her younger siblings, Jackie Black of Billings, MT, Marty LeCompte, Connie Wilkie and Robin Parkes, all of Aberdeen.