Carita T. Brown Wolf

Carita Brown Wolf, 40, of Sioux Falls, passed away Monday, November 17, 2025, at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital, Yankton, SD.

Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. MST, Monday, November 24, 2025, at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Eagle Butte. Burial will follow in St. Thomas Episcopal Cemetery, On The Tree. There will be procession at 9:00 a.m. from the 4-Mile.

Carita Thalassa Brown Wolf was born November 4, 1985, in Sioux Falls, SD to Joyce (Blue Coat) Young Bird and the late Quentin Brown Wolf. Carita was born with a twin, Carissa, on this day.

Carita was raised and grew up in Eagle Butte where she attended Cheyenne Eagle Butte School until her father passed away. She lived in Redfield, Watertown, and Sioux Falls, SD where she spent most of her life.

When Carita was seven months old, she got sick with spinal meningitis. She had been hospitalized while growing up going to school and she was in SPED throughout her life. She met and made friends, participating in Special Olympics. Carita enjoyed going bowling, shopping, going out to eat, drinking coffee, and having fun with her staffs and peers from the Volunteer of Ameria Dakotas. She was always happy, had a great personality when she was around her family, relatives, and friends. She will be greatly missed and loved by all her loved ones and friends.

Carita is survived by her mother, Joyce Young Bird; brother, Rory Brown Wolf; sisters, Pam Phillips and Carissa Brown Wolf; nephews: Keiser and Gavin Phillips; nieces: Penny, Miah, and Emerson Phillips; cousins: John and Derrek Blue Coat, Dawn Satala, and Lorraine Miner; grandma, Margie Clown and many aunties and uncles.

She was preceded in death by her father, Quentin Brown Wolf; sister, Belinda Mary Brown Wolf; grandparents: Rodney Brown Wolf and Cherolyn Grace Eagle-Brown Wolf, Jerry Blue Coat, and Thelma Janis; aunties: Belinda Melody, Gwen, and Delima  Brown Wolf, Marilyn Joyce Brown Wolf-Satala, Charlotte Blue Coat, Gloria Hawk Eagle, and Bernadine Hawk Eagle; uncles: Harvey Hawk Eagle, and Ricky and Dale Blue Coat; cousins: Rita LeBeau, Sunny Butcher, Ferrin Brown Wolf, and Chauncey and Bennett Red Elk,  grandpas: Oliver and Orin Brown Wolf; grandmas: Ruby Red Dog, Cora Mae Marshall, Ann Thompson, Rose Bad Hand, and Goldie Iron Hawk.

Luce Funeral Home of Gettysburg has been entrusted with Carita’s arrangements.