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Carlotta Lou Huckobey “Thunderhorse” Fox , 69, of Deer Lodge, Mont., and Blair, died Thursday, April 10, 2014, at the Golden Living Center in Tekamah.

A memorial service will be 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in Blair. Interment will be at a later date in Hillcrest Cemetery in Deer Lodge.

Carlotta was born in Ardmore, Okla., in the year 1944. She was the daughter of Anna Lou Jackie (Fox) Larsen and Carl Robert Huckobey and stepfather Arnold E. Larsen.

When she was young, she moved to California with her mother who then met and married Arnold E. Larsen. She then had a stepsister Dottie (Larsen) Dutton.

While attending Azusa High School in Azusa, Calif., she met and married Robert Charles Tibbetts who was born in Denison, Iowa. Together, they had three children: Robert Charles Jr., Tyrrie Lynn and Angelina Noel.

After receiving her GED, she worked as an LPN until she was in an automobile accident and sustained a traumatic brain injury. After awaking from a month-long coma, she devoted her life to her children and family. She loved deeply which had a lasting, positive impression on others on how to love and be loved.

She had a couple of marriages after Robert Charles Tibbetts; she married Edward R. Lampe in 1973 and divorced him in 1977. She worked at Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs, Mont., until she attended the University of Montana in 1981 where she studied accounting and art. She worked as an artist with her own business drawing portraits until she moved to Blair in 2004.

During her time in Blair, she was ecstatic to learn that she had a half-brother, Rickie Foreman, from Oklahoma City. While in Blair, her time, mission, and gift to her family became genealogy work. She continued that work, Skyping with brother Rickie until her health prevented her.

She is survived by son Robert Charles Jr. of Great Falls, Mont.; daughters: Tyrrie Lynn Tibbetts Solheim of Blair and Angelina N. Fox of Fort Collins, Colo.; aunt Nellie (Fox) Combe of Shawnee, Okla.; half-brother Rickie C. Foreman of Oklahoma City; nine grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren (with one more on the way.) She was loved dearly and will be greatly missed.

She was preceded in death by her mother, fathers, and many aunts, uncles and cousins.

Memorials may be directed to the family.

Pelan Funeral Services in Tekamah is in charge of arrangements.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~