Connie Blackcloud Kratzke died May 25, 2013, of cancer.

She is preceded in death by her mother Arlene Lunning Shelson and a brother, Bruce Kratzke.

She is survived by two sisters, Susan Reed-Haukoos and Gloria Colton; brother, Keith Kratzke; three nephews, Troy and Travis Colton and David Haukoos; one niece, Vanessa Reed; and her loving companion of 36 years, Joseph Ralph Combs.