Dakotah Lee Armstrong (2002-2007)

Source: Quoted text, Loess Hills Funeral Home website (with permission)
Clippings, Joyce (Hansen) George

Dakotah Lee Armstrong, son of Dennis Wayne and Audra Lynn (Petersen) Armstrong, was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa on July 3, 2002.

Dakotah Lee, a beloved member of two five-generation families, grew up on a farm near Oakland, Iowa. He was excited to start Kindergarten in Treynor this fall. Dakotah Lee was a politician of love and touched the hearts of everyone he knew. He loved his mommy and his daddy very much and his best friend was Sierra. Every evening he would hear the train from miles away and he would run with his mommy to the bridge, signaling for the engineer to blow his horn. He was his mommy's little partner in crime, conniving regularly together to have fun and live life to the fullest every day. Dakotah Lee was proud of his daddy and would often brag to his friends about riding in the dump truck with him. Anxious to start their nightly wrestling matches (which of course Dakotah Lee won), he would greet his Daddy nightly at the mailbox, in his underwear and cowboy boots, rubbing it in that "me and mommy beat you home". Saturdays were "boys' night" when they would trash the house and reminisce over Sunday morning coffee in daddy's office. On many occasions, mommy would have to just roll her eyes and let her "boys be boys". His daddy's favorite thing was letting him be little and sleep in the middle and his favorite thing with mommy was to be her cuddling "Dakotah Lee Bear". He loved watching his Grandpa Lee compete in tractor pulls, visiting with his Grandma Chandra, swimming with his Grandma Patti in the pool, visiting Mama Tiny, and playing with his aunts and uncles. Dakotah Lee was a cowboy at heart. He loved to ride his horses, rope the goat, and planned on being a bull rider (but not before he ate all his onions).

Dakotah Lee had recently celebrated his 5th birthday when he and his mom were in a tragic horseback riding accident on August 11, 2007. Dakotah Lee was flown to the Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska where he died later that evening. He was preceded in death by his Great Grandfather Larry Petersen, Grandfather Jerry Lee Armstrong and Uncle David Lee Armstrong. He is survived by his parents, Audra Lynn and Dennis Armstrong of Oakland, IA; brother Shane Armstrong of IA; grandfather Lee Petersen and wife Chandra of NE; grandmothers Corliss (Tiny) Lisle of Council Bluffs and Patricia Brammer of Kansas; uncles Ryan and David Petersen of NE and Michael Lisle of Cuba City, WI; aunts Jennifer Petersen of NE, Amanda and Samantha Brammer from KS; great and great great-grandparents, aunts and uncles, many cousins and other extended family.