Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Jerome Christopher Coleman Tiger
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   TIGER
   MUSKOGEE - Jerome Christopher Coleman TIGER was born July 29, 1967. He
   died May 9, 1990.  Funeral services were held May 12 in the Bradley
   Belltower Chapel with Dr. Sue Ellen READ officiating. Rev. Tommy
   PHILLIPS conducted a portion of the service in Creek and Linda EPPERLY
   read “A Poem To An Athlete Dying Young.” Pallbearers were
   Keven CHARBONEAU, Rodney HAWKINS, Aaron ROBBINS, Joey TIGER, Kelly
   BRIGGS, Jimbo YANDELL and Kevin WAIT. Honorary Pallbearers were Steve
   DAVIS, Steve SMITH, Jack OSBURN, Freeman MITCHELL, Richard PALMER, Dr.
   Tom LUKER, John ELLIS, Kenny BOND and Kelly BOND. Burial was in the
   Greenwood Cemetery in Eufaula.
   From a front page story on his death, the following personal
   information was given. In high school he was an all-district
   linebacker for the Muskogee High School football team, played at
   Northeastern State University and was a Golden Gloves/Amateur Athletic
   Union champion boxer. In 1984, he won first-place for “Seminole
   Warrior,” and second-place for “Winter Hardship” in the
   painting category at the Statewide Indian Student Art Region Show at
   the Muskogee Education Center. In 1985, his tempera painting
   “Creek Medicine Maker” received the Tooter Arrington
   Memorial Award as best of show in the Five Civilized Tribes Museum
   student art show. His works were on display at the Tiger Art Gallery
   in Muskogee along with his father’s and thos of his sister, Dana
   TIGER, and his uncle, Johnny TIGER, Jr. He was a rising artist, son of
   famous Creek artist Jerome TIGER, who preceded him in death in 1967,
   and Peggy TIGER of the home, who survives. His other survivors include
   his brothers and sisters, Joseph TIGER, Sean TIGER, and David TIGER,
   Dana TIGER and Lisa TIGER, all of Muskogee; his uncle, Johnny TIGER,
   Jr., of Muskogee, also a famous Creek artist; John and Lucinda TIGER
   of Muskogee; and his fiance, Gretchen JOHNSON of Muskogee.