Dolores (Bull Bear) Eisenbarth of Hermiston died peacefully on May 22, 2026 at her home at the age of 89.
Dolores was born on Jan. 18, 1937 at Cannon Ball on the Standing Rock Reservation to Leo Bull Bear Sr. and Edith One Horn.
She grew up in Cannon Ball and then attended and graduated high school in Fort Yates. In April 1969, she married Reuben Eisenbarth. They enjoyed traveling together, visiting all 48 continental states, Alaska, Canada and Mexico. They also visited England, Switzerland, Germany and France, visiting Lucerne, Paris, and Heidelberg among many other places. Their love of children also led them to becoming foster parents. Together they had a farm and a ranch in Hazelton, N.D. and were involved in the Conklin company of Kansas City before retiring in Hermiston in 1989.
She loved planting flowers. She loved going to powwows and rodeos in the summer. She loved Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, and she loved dancing with her husband. She had the gift of the gab and loved to tell stories, often and easily and never the same way. She loved to laugh and was always cracking a little joke, making a play on words. In her later years, she went to “work” every day; outside, she was sorting through and organizing things she wanted to pass on, inside she was annotating hundreds of photographs accompanied always by her Sony Walkman radio playing classic country. She made sure the people who came after her knew where they had come from.
She was, by all accounts and without exception, an extraordinarily loving and generous mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Dolores is survived by her two daughters, Karen and Arlene, both of Hermiston; her grandchildren, Anthony, Brian, Dylan, Cody, Katherine, and Alexandra; her great-granddaughters, Esmerelda, Estelle, Marisol, and Maya; her sister, Denise of Bismarck, N.D.; and many nephews, nieces, and great-nieces and nephews.
Dolores was preceded in death by her parents, Leo Bull Bear Sr. and Edith One Horn; her husband, Reuben; her paternal grandparents, Eugene Bull Bear and Julia Yellow Robe; her maternal grandparents, Edward One Horn and Maggie High Bear; her brother, Leo “Sonny” Bull Bear Jr.; and her sisters, Diane, Delia and Claire.
Services were held on Tuesday, May 26, 2026.
