Oct. 14, 1963-March 3, 2007

MISSION – Arleta Karen Dick, 43, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, died March 3, 2007, in Walla Walla. She was a lifelong resident of the Cayuse, Mission and McKay Creek areas.

A dressing ceremony was held this morning at the Mission Long House. A Washat service will be held at 7 tonight, also at the Long House. Burial will be at 8 a.m. Wednesday at the Agency Cemetery.

She was born Oct. 14, 1963, to Louie and Marie Alexander Dick.

She went to grade school in Pendleton and graduated from Pendleton High School in 1981, where she played volleyball and basketball. After high school, she played softball.

Arleta’s work history included repairing doors and screens in Pendleton, weaving blankets for the Pendleton Woolen Mills and taking care of tribal maintenance for CTUIR. She also was employed at Tamastslikt Cultural Institute.

She loved to work outdoors, going four wheeling in her pickup, spending time with children playing games and watching movies, going to the mountains, cutting wood, and playing the penny machines at Wildhorse.

Dick finished second in the American Indian Junior Beauty contest during the Pendleton Round-Up in 1976. She won the Roy T. Bishop Memorial Award for the best Indian Entry in the Westward Ho! parade at the Pendleton Round-Up in 1978. She was a Happy Canyon participant and rode a horse in the Round-Up arena.

She is survived by her parents Louie and Marie Alexander Dick of Cayuse; brothers Lance Dick of Cayuse, and Dallas Dick of Thornhollow; her companion Andy Munoz of McKay Creek, many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her grandparents Louie and Mary Dick and Uriah and Anita Alexander.

Burns Mortuary of Pendleton is in charge of arrangements.