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Dorothy T. Kinsey, (Esin Ha "Kills Good"), 92, of Hays passed away Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at Northern Montana Care Center due to natural causes. A wake was held at the Mission Rec Center in Hays starting with a rosary at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, March 9, 2018 and a funeral mass at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 10, 2018. Holland and Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements. Please visit Dorothy's online memorial page for a full obituary and leave a message of condolence for her family at http://www.hollandbonine.com

Dorothy Thelma Main was born on February 14, 1926 on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation near Hays, Montana. Her parents, Thomas Main and Mae (Filesteel) Main were proud members of the AhAhninin (Gros Ventre) People.

Dorothy attended 12 years of school at Saint Paul's Mission School and following graduation she began nurses training at the old Sacred Heart School of Nursing in Havre. Her Father, Tom who was the Chairman of Montana Tribal Leaders at the time, asked her to go to the State Capital in Helena to work for Senator Mike Mansfield. She served as a stenographer for Senator Mansfield and worked at the State Capital in the 1940s in the railroad Department what is now the Department of Transportation.

In 1957, Dorothy married Robert John Kinsey from Ryegate, Montana. They had three children, Daniel, Linda and Matthew.

Dorothy worked at the old Indian Health Service Hospital in the Public Health Nursing Office in the late fifties and sixties. Dorothy served on the Reservation Wide Education Committee and worked at the Fort Belknap Education Department in the seventies. In the late eighties she decided to try some college and graduated from what was then Dull Knife Memorial College Fort Belknap Campus earning an associate degree in Business.

In her later years, Dorothy worked in the Harlem Public Schools and Hays/Lodgepole Public Schools as a Bilingual and cultural teacher. She worked up until her early 80s until her eye site started failing. She spent the last years of her life in the Northern Montana Care Center in Havre, MT where she developed many close relationships with her caretakers.

Dorothy was active in the Cum Christo, Lay Ministry and the Sacred Heart Parish at Fort Belknap Agency.

Dorothy joins her siblings, Henrietta, Thomas Jr, Rosie, Elmer, Marie, Myra, James, Harold, and Opal, son Matthew, parents, grandchildren Charles and Joy in paradise.

Dorothy is survived by her brothers, Gerald and Jerome Main, son Daniel Kinsey and Daughter Linda Kinsey as well as many grandchildren, great grandchildren, cousins, nieces and nephews. She cherished her family, extended family and community.

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