Alvina Bernice Hump, 79, of Spearfish, South Dakota, passed away Saturday, June 20, 2026, at Garden Hills Assisted Living in Spearfish. Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday, June 29, 2026, at 11:00 AM at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Red Scaffold, South Dakota. Inurnment will follow at the church cemetery.

Alvina Bernice (Runs After) Hump, (Zuya Waste Win), (Goes to War), was born on March 31, 1947, at Little Cottonwood, north of Cherry Creek, South Dakota, to Dave and Dollie (Little Shield) Runs After.

Alvina grew up in the Bridger area where she attended the Bridger Day School, Faith Public School, Cheyenne Eagle Butte School and the Brainerd Indian School. She then attended business school in Huron, South Dakota. After returning home from Huron, Alvina started working for the CRST Rehab Program. This is where she met her future husband, Darrel Hump.

Darrel and Alvina were married on April 8, 1967. To this union, they were blessed with four children, Dave, Carmen, Carrie and Lyman. After living a short time in Dupree and Eagle Butte, they moved back to the country to be near Darrel’s parents. They had started their own cattle program and raised their own bucking horse stock. This is when Darrel and Alvina joined them in their operation and also started their own stock; they would put on amateur rodeos specializing in bronc riding. It was a fun time when they trailed their horses to Red Scaffold for the rodeos. They also leased their horses to Gunville Rodeos and Mosbrucker Rodeos of Mandan, North Dakota. A special highlight for them was having one of their own horses be named the bronc of the year in North Dakota.

While living in the country, Alvina worked at Red Scaffold Day School earning her cooking certificate. She was also employed as a MCH for the Red Scaffold area, with the training she received at Tucson, Arizona. After moving back to Eagle Butte, she had the opportunity to work at Diamond, a tribal daycare as a cook. Alvina had put her education on hold since moving to the country, so when they moved back to Eagle Butte, she resumed her education at the Cheyenne River Community College. She graduated in 1997 with two degrees, Accounting and Computers. She stared working for the CRST Title 1 Program in February 1991 at the Primary School, and in March of 2006 moved to the Upper Elementary where she worked until her retirement.

She is survived by her two sons David Hump and Lyman Hump. She is preceded in death by husband, Darrel Hump; son, Ryan Hump; and two daughters, Carmen Hump and Carrie (Hump) Kennedy.

The family would like to extend a special acknowledgement to Mary Rousseau for her unwavering friendship, and a special thank you to Garden Hills Assisted Living’s dedicated staff.