Carolyn Frazier

Carolyn J. Frazier, 48, of Parade passed away Tuesday, February 27, 2024, at her home.

Mass of Christian Burial was held March 8, 2024 at All Saints Catholic Church in Eagle Butte. Burial was in the LeCompte Family Cemetery at Ridgeview.

Carolyn Jeanne LeCompte was born on March 11, 1975 in Eagle Butte to Barbara LeCompte and Willard Male Bear. Carolyn began her life with her mom Barb at her grandparents’ home in Ridgeview. This is also where she met her first lifetime friends, Aunt Beth, and her cousins, Rick and Mona. After a short time at Grandpa and Grandma’s, her mom started a job in Aberdeen, which then became her home, and it is where she completed her years of schooling. She then attended the Clearfield Job Corps in Salt Lake City, UT where she studied auto detailing and painting. She enjoyed beading and going to the casino.

On March 1, 1994, Carolyn became a mother to her son, Tyler Jaymz. Together the trio remained in Aberdeen until Grandma Barb retired and they moved to Eagle Butte in 1997, where she then reconnected with her lifetime partner and husband, Vetal, Sr. The young couple met when they were 14 years old, and Carolyn commemorated her and Vetal’s love by carving their names in her Grandpa Ivan’s barn. After a short time, they went their separate ways but life brought them back together.

Carolyn and Vetal married on June 23, 2001, and soon after, Tyler was joined by his three brothers, Vetal Jr., Jonathan and Brandon. After losing Grandma Barb in 2009, the family lived in Mobridge until the death of her oldest son, Tyler, in 2017. During Carolyn’s time in Mobridge, she was blessed with her grandsons, Carter and Zayden. The family then moved to Parade, where Carolyn lived out the rest of her life with her family.

She is survived by her husband, Vetal; sons Vetal, Jr. “Junebug,” Jonathan “Jon-Jon”, and Brandon; brother, Willard Male Bear, Jr.; grandsons Carter, and Zayden; uncle Chuck (Sharon) LeCompte; aunts Dixie LeCompte, Susie (Jim) Shihady, Woody (Steve) Klein, Beth (Jake) Johnson, Eunice (Charlie) Moudy; brothers-in-law Simon (Alice), Kermit, Micheal, and Bryan Frazier; and sisters-in-law Delberta, Natasha, Dawn, and Deloris Frazier.

Carolyn is preceded in death by her mother, Barb; son Tyler; father, Willard Male Bear, Sr.; maternal grandparents, Ivan and Adelle LeCompte; paternal grandparents, Vincent and Esther Thundershield; uncles Marvin and Hank LeCompte, Roland Thundershield, and Nathan Frazier Jr.; aunt Eloise “Gig” LeCompte; cousins Rick, Mona and Colt; and special cousin Jeri Jewel Garreau.

Luce Funeral Home of Gettysburg was in charge of arrangements.