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Alice Leatrice Whitecloud

July 22, 1955 — August 6, 2021

Funeral Services for Alice Rhoads Whitecloud, 66, Tulsa resident, will be held 11:00 A.M., Wednesday, August 11, 2021 in Clinton’s Cheyenne Arapaho Community Building, officiated by Pastor Mona Bearshield. She will be buried next to her father in the Clinton Indian Cemetery under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home. There will be a traditional wake service 6:00 p.m. till 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 10, 2021 in the Community Building officiated by Pastor Delfred Whitecrow. Alice Leatrice (Rhoads) Whitecloud (Indian Name ”White Voice Women”) was born July 22, 1955 to Arleigh and Chloe (Eagle) Rhoads in Pawnee, OK and passed away Friday, August 6, 2021 in the St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, OK. Alice was a descendent of both Cheyenne Chief and Ponca Chief. Alice was raised in the Tulsa area and graduated from Shawnee, OK High School in 1973. She married Gary Whitecloud August 11, 1991 in Bixby, OK. She had worked several years as a printer for a Printing Company. She was a proud member for the Cheyenne Tribes of Oklahoma and also was active with the Ponca Tribe. She was a member of the Indian Methodist Church, Native American Church, All Nations Church; she was a Southern Buckskin and cloth Dancer and she was very involved in the Pow Wow world, the Tulsa Indian Collation against Racism; she has been involved in several Native American Documentaries; she was an advocate for higher education; she spent many hours encouraging her native friends and relative to register to vote; served on the Tulsa Indian Affairs Commission, the Pa Tha Ta Ponca Scalp Dance Society; she was the director for the All Nations Indian Youth Group; She did Native American Presentations at Elementary Schools. She was a strong family leader; she loved to visit with family and friends and help those in need. Her passion was being with her grandchildren. Alice enjoyed going to concerts, playing BINGO. She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, Arlen Rhoads, Paul Rhoads and two sons, Moses Whitecloud and Lance Whitecloud. She is survived by her husband, Gary, of the home; two daughters, Veronica Whitecloud, Tulsa and Robyn Whitecloud, Haskell, OK; two sons, Gary Whitecloud, Jr., Red Rock, OK and Sterling Whitecloud, Lawton, OK. She is also survived by five grandchildren, Savanna, Jerek, Devin and twins Lara and Ky and a great grandchild on the way; nephews, nieces and along with many relatives near and far.

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Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Starts at 11:00 am (Central time)

Clinton Indian Community Building

, Clinton, OK

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Clinton Indian Cemetery

, OK 73601

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