Tribal Business Council Member Dies

Gloria Marchand-Picard Nespelem, Wash.

Service for Colville Tribal Business Council member Gloria M. Marchand-Picard will be at 10 a.m. today at the Nespelem Community Center. Burial will follow at Nespelem Catholic Cemetery.

Mrs. Marchand-Picard, 48, died Saturday at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane.

She was born in Nespelem.

She attended St. Maries Mission School in Omak, Wash., and graduated from high school in Coulee Dam.

“She had great respect for the elders of the tribes, she was concerned for the welfare of our children, and she loved her homeland, the Colville Indian Reservation,” said Mathew Dick Jr., chairman of the Colville Business Council. “We are saddened by the loss of Mrs. Picard, and we will remember her as a tireless servant for the Colville tribal membership.”

Mrs. Marchand-Picard was recently re-elected to her third term on the 14-member Colville Business Council from the Nespelem District of the Colville Indian Reservation.

She worked for the Colville Confederated Tribes for 25 years. As a councilwoman, she served on the executive board of the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, was secretary of the executive committee of the Colville Business Council (CBC), was chairwoman of the management and budget committee of the CBC, and was a delegate to the National Congress of American Indians and to the Washington State Indian Council on Aging.

She is survived by her husband of 24 years, Francis “Pat” Picard, at home; two sons, Danny Picard of Idaho and Jimmy Jackson of Grand Coulee; three daughters, Karee Running of South Dakota, Toni Condon of Spokane and June Picard of Inchelium, Wash.; four brothers, Earl “Sonny” Marchand of Omak and Russel, Monte and Frank “Barney” Marchand Jr., all of Nespelem; four sisters, Virginia Marchand of Nespelem, Caroline Clark of Deer Park, and Glenda Baez and Shirley Charley, both of Omak; and seven grandchildren.

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