September 6, 1962 – December 20, 2024
Funeral services for Bud Longbrake, 62, of Dupree were held Saturday, December 28, 2024 at the Dupree School Gymnasium Bud passed away Friday, December 20, 2024, at the IHS Hospital in Eagle Butte. Kesling Funeral Home of Mobridge was charge of arrangements.
Emmett Dunn “Bud” Longbrake was born on September 6, 1962 in Eagle Butte to Delbert F. “Pete” and Faye A. (Nordvold) Longbrake. He was met on the ranch on Ash Creek by older brothers Delbert W. and Jesse J. They would be followed by a sister Charlie to complete the family.
His early life on Ash Creek was filled with riding horses to check cows, later riding colts, and going to rodeos with Pete and Faye. The Knight families were the closest neighbors and a lot of time was spent there playing war, riding, playing in the hay and getting chewed out because the hay was all messed up, and practicing riding steers or anything else they could. The Till and Bendigo families were also close friends and free time was pretty rowdy.
When he was about 12 Bud went to work/live with the Clif and Inga Birkeland family.
In 1987 Bud married Lona Wishard and together they had Jay and Kayla. They started their own ranch southwest of Dupree. Bud was later able to incorporate his Grandma Mary Longbrake’s place. Lona and the kids traveled around with Bud when he rodeoed as much as they could but they also kept the ranch together. There are lots of memories the family shares but the most outstanding ones are when Bud won the first, second, short go, and the average in the bronc riding in Cheyenne in 1999. Also the 2002 winter Olympiad was an exciting family history event. His mom was able to attend and she was always talking about it. The several NFR trips and winning the average was a highlight of the family history as well.
Bud was a family man and was very proud of his kids and grandkids. He would take horses to local rodeos and watch his grandkids rodeo and he’d take them hunting and fishing.
He will be greatly missed by his daughter Kayla and her daughter Hailee; son Jay and his family of Jakki, Jaxon, Kayzli, Jaydunn, Kayclynn, and Kali; Lona Longbrake;special friend Darla Woodward; mother Faye Longbrake; siblings Delbert (Mona), Jesse (Cindy), Charlie (Harlan); aunts June (Don) Gray, Nan Savoy, and Mary Jo Garreau; uncles Blaine and Jerry Nordvold; Beverly Longbrake, Judy Longbrake; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Bud is preceded in death by fatherin- law Tom Wishard; father Pete Longbrake; grandparents Sydney and Rose Nordvold, Delbert and Mary Longbrake; and several aunts, uncles and cousins.
(Jesse “Jake” and Cindy Longbrake’s address is Box 92, Dupree, SD 57623.)