Amy Thompson

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 “daddy’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; grandma, Clarice Miner; 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; daughter, Conde Flying By; sisters: Elizabeth Flying By and Valaria Monroe; aunts: Deb Douglas, Clarinda Herrald, Cheryl Bently, Menoda Flying By, Cordilia Benoist, and Faye Condon; uncles: Wilber Flying By, Myron Flying By, and Byron Flying By; cousins: Spencer Swan and Dan Harrald; 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.