Oilinger, Carol Faye

BROWNING - Carol Faye Ollinger, 70, who had worked for the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs and whose hobbies included crochet-
ing dolls, died of natural causes Tuesday at a Browning 
hospital.

A wake is in progress at the Eagle Shield Center, with rosary 
there at 7 this evening. Funeral Mass is 11 a.m. Saturday at 
Little Flower Catholic Church. Pondera Funeral Home is in 
charge of arrangements.

Carol Faye was born Jan. 30, 1940, in Browning, to George Sr. 
and Ida (Conway) Bremner. She was raised in Browning and 
received her high school diploma from Flandreau Indian 
School.

She married Clifford "Billo" Ollinger Sr. in 1958, in Canada.

Carol Faye was the first female officer on the Blackfeet 
Reserva-tion. She was a social worker for the BIA, a child 
protection worker, a Community Health representative and had 
worked at the Family Planning Center in Browning. In addition, 
she worked for the BIA boarding school, as a matron at the 
Che-mawa Indian School and as a jailer for the BIA.

Survivors include her daughter, Teri (Stew) Horn of Heart Butte; 
sons Clifford (Sherie) Ollinger Jr. of Browning, Rick (Margie) 
Ollinger of Cut Bank, Mike (Anita) Ollinger of Kent, Wash., and 
Earl (Maria) Ollinger of Fort Belknap; a sibling, Alfred Racine of 
Browning; 24 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Clifford "Billo," on 
June 7, 2000; a son, Craig Ollin-ger Sr.; her parents; brothers 
Clarence Bremner, Cecil Bremner and George "Sonny" Bremner 
Jr.; and sisters Betty Jean Augare, Enid Daniels and Ramona 
Gordon. 

Condolences may be posted online at 
www.gftribune.com/obituaries.

Published in Great Falls Tribune on June 25, 2010